Ralph Pomeroy Buckland (20 January 1812 – 27 May 1892) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-OH 9) from 4 March 1865 to 3 March 1869, succeeding Warren P. Noble and preceding Edward F. Dickinson.
Biography[]
Ralph Pomeroy Buckland was born in Leyden, Massachusetts in 1812, and he moved with his parents to Ravenna, Ohio that same year. He became a lawyer in Fremont in 1837, and he served as Mayor of Fremont from 1843 to 1845, as a delegate to the 1848 Whig National Convention, in the State Senate from 1855 to 1859, as a Union Army Major-General during the American Civil War (commanding a brigade at the Siege of Vicksburg), in the US House of Representatives from 1865 to 1869, as a delegate to the 1876 RNC, as a railroad director, and as a James G. Blaine presidential elector in 1884. He died in 1892.