Clarence Buckman

Clarence Bennett Buckman (April 1, 1851 – March 1, 1917) a Representative from Minnesota; born in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; attended the public and normal schools; moved to Minnesota in 1872 and settled in what is now known as Buckman; engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the lumber business; appointed justice of the peace in 1873; member of the Minnesota House of Representatives 1881 – 1883; served in the Minnesota Senate 1887 – 1891 and 1899 – 1903; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth congresses (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1906; deputy United States marshal 1912 – 1917; resumed the lumber business in Little Falls, Morrison County, Minnesota; died in Battle Creek, Michigan, March 1, 1917; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Little Falls, Minnesota.