13 Facts About Clarence Buckman

Clarence Buckman served in both houses of the Minnesota Legislature prior to his election to Congress.

Clarence Buckman moved to Minnesota in 1872 and was involved in agriculture and the lumber industry before being appointed justice of the peace in 1873.

Clarence Buckman was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives for the 30th district in 1880.

Clarence Buckman served only one term, as he won the Minnesota Senate seat for the 39th district in 1882.

Clarence Buckman was reelected to the state Senate in 1886, although during the term his residence was listed as Sauk Rapids.

Clarence Buckman was not reelected to his state Senate seat in 1890.

In 1892, disliking the accommodations of his Little Falls hotel room, Clarence Buckman decided he would build his own.

Clarence Buckman bought a corner lot in the downtown area and designed the building himself, telling the architects to only fill in the blanks.

Clarence Buckman returned to politics when he won election to the state Senate for the 48th district in 1898, this time running as an Independent Republican instead of Republican, which he ran as for the other positions he held.

Clarence Buckman served as chairman of the Internal Improvements Committee for his first term and chair for the Labor Committee in his second.

Clarence Buckman then won a seat in the US House of Representatives for the 6th district in 1902 and won reelection in 1904 before losing renomination to Charles Lindbergh, Sr.

Clarence Buckman was a US deputy marshal from 1907 to 1912.

Clarence Buckman died at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan on March 1,1917, and is buried in Oakland Cemetery in Little Falls.