Joseph Buffum Jr. | |
State: | New Hampshire |
District: | 4th |
Term Start: | March 4, 1819 |
Term End: | March 3, 1821 |
Preceded: | Clement Storer |
Succeeded: | Josiah Butler |
Birth Date: | 23 September 1784 |
Resting Place: | South Village Cemetery Westmoreland, Cheshire County New Hampshire, USA |
Profession: | Lawyer Politician Farmer |
Party: | Democratic-Republican |
Alma Mater: | Dartmouth College |
Joseph Buffum Jr. (September 23, 1784 – February 24, 1874) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.
Born in Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Buffum attended the public schools and the local academy. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1806,[1] and studied law.
Buffum practiced in Westmoreland and Keene, New Hampshire.
Elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth Congress, Buffum was United States Representative for the fourth district of New Hampshire from (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821).[2] After leaving the House, he was appointed judge of the court of common pleas on January 21, 1825.
Buffum never married; engaged in agricultural pursuits and died in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire on February 24, 1874.[3] He is interred in South Village Cemetery.