Alfred Eliab Buck (7 February 1832-4 December 1902) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-AL 1) from 4 March 1869 to 3 March 1871, succeeding Francis William Kellogg and preceding Benjamin S. Turner.
Biography[]
Alfred Eliab Buck was born in Foxcroft, Maine in 1832, and he served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he settled in Mobile, Alabama as a "carpetbagger", and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1869 to 1871, as President of the Mobile City Council in 1873, and as a court clerk in Atlanta, Georgia from 1874 to 1889. He went on to serve as US Marshal for the Northern District of Georgia from 1889 to 1893, and he served as ambassador to Japan from 1897 until his death in Tokyo in 1902.