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Daniel Buck (9 November 1753 – 16 August 1816) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-VT 2) from 4 March 1795 to 3 March 1797, succeeding Nathaniel Niles and preceeding Lewis R. Morris.

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Daniel Buck was born in Hebron, Connecticut in 1753, and he lost an arm at the Battle of Bennington while serving in the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War. He became a lawyer in Thetford, Vermont 1783 and served as the State's Attorney for Orange County from 1783 to 1785, in the State House from 1793 to 1794, as Vermont Attorney General from 1794 to 1795, and in the US House of Representatives from 1795 to 1797. He went on to serve as State's Attorney for Windsor County from 1802 to 1803 and in the State House from 1806 to 1806, and he died in 1816.

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