History of Fishing Creek Township, (Columbia County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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Charles R. Buckalew, senator, was born in Fishing Creek township, Pa., Dec. 28, 1821. He was admitted to the bar in 1843, and was prosecuting attorney of Columbia county from 1845 to 1847. He was elected to the state senate in 1850 and 1855; was commissioned to exchange ratifications of a treaty with Paraguay in 1854; was a presidential elector in 1856; chairman of the Democratic state committee in 1857; again state senator in 1857; one of the commissioners to revise a penal code of the state in 1858. In 1860 he was appointed minister resident at Ecuador by President Buchanan. In 1863 he was elected to the U.S. senate, where he was prominent on several committees, and active in debate upon the reconstruction measures, which he considered illegal. He was elected to the state senate in 1869 for the fourth time, served in the constitutional convention of 1873; in 1876 was on the Democratic electoral ticket. In 1872 he published a volume upon Proportional Representation, and in 1883 a work upon the Constitution of Pennsylvania. In 1887 was elected a representative to the 50th, and in 1889 was re-elected to the 51st congress. He died at Bloomburg, Pa., May 19, 1899.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Fishing Creek Township, (Columbia County) Pennsylvania

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