Preceded by Samuel F. Miller Party Republican Party Political party Republican Succeeded by David Wilber | Name Solomon Bundy Resigned March 3, 1879 Role Politician | |
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Born May 22, 1823
Oxford, New York ( 1823-05-22 ) Died January 13, 1889, Oxford, New York, United States Education Oxford Academy, Oxfordshire | ||
Solomon Bundy (May 22, 1823 – January 13, 1889) was an attorney and politician, a United States Representative from New York. He had earlier served as district attorney of Chenango County, New York.
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Early life and education
Solomon Bundy was born in Oxford, Chenango County in 1823, in a period of development in western New York. He attended Oxford Academy. He taught school for several years, and read the law; he was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Oxford. While studying law, he served as justice of the peace and clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Chenango County.
Law career
After being admitted to the bar and practicing law, Bundy was elected as district attorney of Chenango County (1862–1865). He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1879). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1878.
After his political career ended, he resumed practicing law in Oxford. He died there and was interred in Riverview Cemetery.
Personal life
Bundy married and had a family. His son McGeorge Bundy also became an attorney, moving to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he settled. McGeorge's son Harvey Hollister Bundy graduated from Yale University and went to law school at Harvard University; he settled in Boston, where he married and had a family. He served at high levels of government with Henry L. Stimson under presidents Herbert Hoover and later under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Harvey's two sons, William Putnam Bundy and McGeorge Bundy, both became attorneys and served in intelligence during World War II. They served as high-level advisors to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, particularly related to the Vietnam War.