district resting_place succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party preceded term birth_date article_title state name
1st & 2nd oak grove cemetery oakes 1876 -rrb- ames -lrb- 1863 -rrb- william w. crapo -lrb- 7 march 1875 fall river , massachusetts fall river , massachusetts republican samuel -lrb- 1869 -rrb- l. crocker -lrb- 1855 -rrb- thomas d. eliot march -lrb- 2nd -rrb- march 4 , 1869 -- march 7 4 , 1875 -lrb- 1st -rrb- , 1855 -- march 3 , 1863 16 march 1817 james buffington -lrb- fall river , massachusetts -rrb-
 massachusetts james buffington
james buffington -lrb- fall river , massachusetts -rrb-

james buffington -lrb- march 16 , 1817 -- march 7 , 1875 -rrb- -lrb- also known as '' `` buffinton '' '' -rrb- 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 -lrb- march 4 , 1855 -- march 3 , 1863 -rrb- .
buffington was chairman of the committee on accounts -lrb- thirty-seventh congress,forty-second and forty-third congresses -rrb- , and the committee on military affairs -lrb- thirty-seventh congress -rrb- .
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 .
