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Solomon Bundy | |
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Member of the U.S.HouseofRepresentatives from New York's 21st district | |
In office March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879 | |
Preceded by | Samuel F. Miller |
Succeeded by | David Wilber |
Personal details | |
Born | Oxford, New York | May 22, 1823
Died | January 13, 1889 65) Oxford, New York | (aged
Political party | Republican |
Solomon Bundy (May 22, 1823 – January 13, 1889) was an attorney and politician, a United States Representative from New York. [1] He had earlier served as district attorney of Chenango County, New York. [2]
Solomon Bundy was born in Oxford, Chenango County in 1823, in a period of development in western New York. He attended Oxford Academy. He taught school for several years, and read the law; he was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Oxford. While studying law, he served as justice of the peace and clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Chenango County.
After being admitted to the bar and practicing law, Bundy was elected as district attorney of Chenango County (1862–1865). He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1879). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1878. [3] [4]
After his political career ended, he resumed practicing law in Oxford. He died there and was interred in Riverview Cemetery. [2]
Bundy married and had a family. His son McGeorge Bundy also became an attorney, moving to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he settled. McGeorge's son Harvey Hollister Bundy graduated from Yale University and went to law school at Harvard University; he settled in Boston, where he married and had a family. He served at high levels of government with Henry L. Stimson under presidents Herbert Hoover and later under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Harvey's two sons, William Putnam Bundy and McGeorge Bundy, both became attorneys and served in intelligence during World War II. They served as high-level advisors to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, particularly related to the Vietnam War.
Bundy's 3rd great-grandson, Jacob Daniel Auchincloss, is currently a Democratic candidate for Massachusetts 4th Congressional District.
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Preceded by Samuel F. Miller | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 21st congressional district 1877–1879 | Succeeded by David Wilber |
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