Charles Rollin Buckalew
U. S. Minister Resident to the Republic of Ecuador, 1858-1861
U. S. Senator, Pennsylvania, 1863-1869
U. S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, 1887-1891
Born: December 28, 1821, Fishing Creek Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
Died: May 19, 1899, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
- Harford Academy, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, graduate.
- Studied law, was admitted to the bar, 1843, and commenced law practice in Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, 1844.
- Prosecuting Attorney for Columbia County, 1845-1847.
- Served in the Pennsylvania State Senate, 1850-1853.
- Commissioner to exchange ratifications of a treaty with Paraguay, 1854.
- Presidential Elector on the Democratic ticket of Buchanan and Breckinridge, 1856.
- Chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee, 1857.
- Again a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, in 1857-1858.
- Appointed one of the Commissioners to revise the penal code of the Pennsylvania State, 1857.
- Appointed Minister Resident to the Republic of Ecuador, 1858, and served three years.
- Elected from Pennsylvania as a Democrat to the U. S. Senate, serving from March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1869.
- Again served in the Pennsylvania State Senate, 1869.
- Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, 1872.
- Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1873.
- Elected from Pennsylvania as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first U. S. Congresses, March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1891.
- Resumed law practice in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, where he died on .
Buried: Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)