Robert C. Buell | |
Birth Date: | 23 April 1931 |
Birth Place: | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Death Place: | Rye, New Hampshire, U.S. |
Nationality: | American |
Occupation: | Insurance Broker Politician |
Residence: | Boxford, Massachusetts |
Party: | Republican |
Spouse: | Jean Wetmore Buell |
Alma Mater: | Union College Boston University |
State Senate1: | Massachusetts |
District1: | 1st Essex and Middlesex |
Term Start1: | 1979 |
Term End1: | 1995 |
Predecessor1: | William L. Saltonstall |
Successor1: | Bruce Tarr |
State House2: | Massachusetts |
District2: | 12th Essex |
Term Start2: | 1969 |
Term End2: | 1979 |
Predecessor2: | James Hurrell |
Successor2: | Theodore C. Speliotis |
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Robert Colby Buell (April 23, 1931 – September 25, 2018) was an American insurance broker and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1969 to 1979 and the Massachusetts Senate from 1979 to 1995.[1]
A Republican, Buell ran for the 12th Essex State Representative seat in 1968 and won. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives until he ran for the 1st Essex Middlesex State Senate seat in 1979, which he also won.[2] In the Senate, Buell was the Third Assistant Minority Leader from 1981 to 1983 and Second Assistant Minority Leader from 1983 to 1989 and again from 1991 to 1993.
Buell died in Rye, New Hampshire on September 25, 2018, at the age of 87.[3]