- Frank Charles Bunnell
Frank Charles Bunnell (
March 19 ,1842 –September 11 ,1911 ) was a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Frank C. Bunnell was born in
Washington Township, Pennsylvania . He attended the district rural school andWyoming Seminary inKingston, Pennsylvania , until he enlisted as a private in Company B, Fifty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, in September 1861. He was promoted and served asquartermaster sergeant of his regiment during the peninsular campaign underGeneral McClellan . He was discharged from the service April 2, 1863, on a surgeon’s certificate of disability. He was engaged in mercantile pursuits from 1864 to 1869. He moved toTunkhannock, Pennsylvania , and engaged in agricultural pursuits and in banking.Bunnell was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1872. He was subsequently elected to the Forty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Ulysses Mercur . He served as president of the Wyoming County Agricultural Society for over twenty years, and was elected burgess and borough treasurer of Tunkhannock in 1884.Bunnell was again elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1888. He died in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . Interment in Gravel Hill Cemetery in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania.References
*CongBio|B001064 Retrieved on
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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bunnel-burbridge.html The Political Graveyard]
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