Thomas Lathrop Bunting
Democrat Representative of New York's 33rd district
Representative
New York, district 33
December 7, 1891 - March 3, 1893
1
Congresses Served
1
House Terms
April 24, 1844 (54 years old)
Birthday
December 27, 1898
Death
- Served one term as a U.S. Representative from 1891 to 1893
- Educated in common schools and the Griffith Institute
- Taught school during winters and attended academy during summer months
- Moved to Hamburg, New York, in 1868 after illness interrupted his college preparation
- Established a general mercantile store and engaged in the canning business
- Elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress
- Declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1892
- Resumed canning business after serving in Congress and became interested in farming, dairying, and stock raising
- Died in Buffalo, New York, in 1898 and was interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Hamburg, New York