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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaBUCK, Frank Henry
(1887—1942)
BUCK, Frank Henry, a Representative from California; born on a ranch near Vacaville, Solano County, Calif., September 23, 1887; attended the public schools; was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1908 and from the law department of Harvard University in 1911; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in San Francisco, Calif.; fruit grower and farmer at Vacaville, Calif.; also engaged in the lumber business and in oil refining; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1928, 1936, and 1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 17, 1942; interment in Vacaville-Elmira Cemetery, Vacaville, Calif.
United States. 78th Cong., 1st sess., 1943. House. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Frank Henry Buck, late a Representative from California, Seventy-eighth Congress, first session
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1945.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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