This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VYG.2ACIB/1240 Message Board Post: EVENING POST ANNUAL, 1882 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES [With Portraits] of the State Officers, Representatives in Congress, Governor’s Staff, and Senators and Members of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut. Published Annually. Hartford, Conn.: Evening Post Association. 1882. Pg. 35, 36 HON. JOHN R. BUCK, Congressman, First District: Hon. John R. Buck, republican representative in Congress from the First District, was born at Glastonbury, Connecticut, December 6, 1836, and was educated at Wilbraham academy and Wesleyan university. After completing his academical education he studied law, was admitted to the Bar in 1862, and has since practiced his profession at Hartford. He was for several years the law partner of the Hon. Julius L. Strong. He was assistant clerk of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1864, clerk in 1865, and clerk of the Senate in 1866. He was president of the Common Council of the city of Hartford in 1868; was City Attorney in 1871 and again in 1873, and was Treasurer of the county of Hartford from 1863 to 1881. In 1880 and 1881 he was a member of the Connecticut Senate. In November, 1880, he was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress from the First Congressional District to succeed General Hawley, who had been elected United States Senator, receiving 17,048 votes against 15, 114 votes given for his Democratic competitor. Mr. Buck is one of the leading lawyers at the Hartford Bar, and has been employed as counsel in many important cases, involving the powers, duties, and liabilities of municipal, railroad, and other corporations. He was one of the early promoters of the Bar association of the State. Mr. Buck has always been an active and prominent republican, and has ever taken a zealous interest in the affairs of his State. It may especially be said of him that he has ably and faithfully filled all the positions of honor and trust to which he has been appointed. Mr. Buck will make a useful Member of Congress by reason especially of his long and active experience in legislative matters. He is a most persistent and patient worker, and invariably wins men and their support to measures more by quiet persuasion than by oratory. Yet he is a good public speaker — always terse and to the point. So far as attention to the needs of his constituency is concerned, he may be depended upon to be watchful, and the business interests which he may be called upon to assist will be sure to have a most effective supporter. Though a new member of the House, he has been assigned to important committees, including that on the revision of the laws, which is a place sought by leading lawyers in that body.