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American politician
James Buffington
(March 16, 1817 ? March 7, 1875) (also known as "
Buffinton
") was a member of the
United States House of Representatives
from
Massachusetts
. He was born in
Fall River
on March 16, 1817. He attended the common schools, and
Friends College
in
Providence, Rhode Island
. He studied medicine but never practiced, then engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was a member of the Fall River
Board of Selectmen
from 1851 to 1854, and served as the first
Mayor
of Fall River under the new city government from 1854 to 1855. He was elected as a candidate of the
American Party
to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a
Republican
to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1855 ? March 3, 1863). Buffington was chairman of the Committee on Accounts (Thirty-seventh Congress, Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses), and the Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-seventh Congress).
Buffington was mustered into the service April 24, 1861, and discharged June 15, 1861. He was not a candidate for renomination to Congress in 1862. He was a special agent of the
United States Treasury
and was an
internal revenue
collector for the district of Massachusetts 1867?1869. Buffington was elected to the Forty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1869, until his death in Fall River on March 7, 1875. His interment was in
Oak Grove Cemetery
in Fall River.
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Alternately named
National Security
in 104th and 105th Congresses.
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