Ralph P. Buckland
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Ralph Pomeroy Buckland (January 20, 1812 – May 27, 1892) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, as well as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Born in Leyden, Massachusetts, Buckland moved with his parents to Ravenna, Ohio, the same year. He attended the country schools, Tallmadge (Ohio) Academy, and Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Fremont, Ohio. He served as mayor of Fremont from 1843–45 and was a delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1848. He served as member of the State Senate from 1855–59.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered the Union Army as colonel of the 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry on January 10, 1862. He was commissioned as a brigadier general of volunteers on November 29, 1862. In the omnibus promotions following the surrender of the Confederate armies, he was brevetted as a major general dating from March 13, 1865. Following the war, he resigned from the army January 6, 1865, and returned to Ohio.
Buckland was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865–March 3, 1869). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress. He resumed the practice of law and served as delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' Convention in 1866 and to the Pittsburgh Soldiers' Convention.
He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876. He spent his later years involved in the railroad industry, serving as government director of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1877-1880.
He died in Fremont, Ohio, on May 27, 1892, and was interred in Oakwood Cemetery.
