Hezekiah Sanford Bundy was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Ohio

Ohio

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Biography

Born in Marietta, Ohio

Marietta, Ohio

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, Bundy moved with his parents to Athens County in 1819.
He attended the public schools.
He engaged in agricultural pursuits.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1850 and practiced until 1860, when he became engaged in the iron business.
He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1848 and 1850.
He served in the State senate in 1855.
Presidential elector for Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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/Hamlin

Hannibal Hamlin

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 in 1860.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth

38th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:Before this Congress, the 1860 United States Census and resulting reapportionment changed the size of the House to 241 members...

 Congress.

Bundy was elected as a Republican

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 to the Thirty-ninth

39th United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867).
He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1866.

Bundy was elected to the Forty-third

43rd United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Mileage (Forty-third

43rd United States Congress

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 Congress).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth

44th United States Congress

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 Congress.
He moved to Wellston, Jackson County, in 1887 and resumed the practice of law.

Bundy was elected to the Fifty-third

53rd United States Congress

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 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William H. Enochs and served from December 4, 1893, to March 3, 1895.
He died in Wellston, Ohio

Wellston, Ohio

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, December 12, 1895.
He was interred in the City Cemetery.

His daughter Julia Ann married Joseph B. Foraker

Joseph B. Foraker

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, a prominent Ohio politician in the end of the 19th century and early 20th who served as governor of Ohio.

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