Ralph Pomeroy Buckland

Major General, USA, 1862-1865
U. S. House of Representatives, Ohio, 1865-1869

Born: January 20, 1812, Leyden, Massachusetts.

• Moved with his parents to Ravenna, Ohio, 1812.
  
• Attended the country schools, Talimadge (Ohio) Academy, and Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.
  
• Studied law, was admitted to the Ohio bar, 1837
  
• Commenced law practice in Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio.
  
• Mayor of Fremont, Ohio, 1843-1845.
  
• Delegate from Ohio to the Whig National Convention, 1848.
  
• Member of the Ohio State Senate, 1855-1859.
  
• During the Civil War entered the Union Army as Colonel of the Seventy-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, January 10, 1862.
  
• Commissioned Brigadier General of Volunteers, November 29, 1862.
  
• Brevetted Major General, March 13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious services.
  
• Resigned U. S. Army commission, January 6, 1865.
  
• Elected from Ohio as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth U. S. Congresses, March 4, 1865 - March 3, 1869.
  
• Was not a candidate for renomination, 1868.
  
• Resumed the practice of law.
  
• Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' Convention, 1866, and to the Pittsburgh Soldiers' Convention.
  
• Delegate from Ohio to the Republican National Convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, 1876.
  
• Government director of the Union Pacific Railroad, 1877-1880.

Died: May 27, 1892, Fremont, Ohio.
Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio.

(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.)