State committee in 1857; appointed one of the commissioners to revise the penal code of Pennsylvania in 1857; Minister Resident to the Republic of Ecuador 1858-1861; unsuccessful candidate for governor of Pennsylvania in 1872; and a delegate to the Pennsylvania constitutional convention of 1873. He resumed the practice of law when he left Congress in 1891, age 69, in Bloomsburg, Columbia County, where he died on May 19, 1899. He is interred in Rosemont Cemetery in Bloomsburg. Buckalew's writings and speeches on cumulative voting were collected in an 1872 book titled Proportional Representation. 1872, Philadelphia, J. Campbell & Son. References and notes External links Retrieved on 2009-04-01 Proportional Representation, by Charles R. Buckalew at the University of Michigan Making of America online library |- 1821 births 1899 deaths 19th-century American diplomats 19th-century American politicians Ambassadors of the United States to Ecuador Burials in Pennsylvania Democratic Party United States senators from Pennsylvania Pennsylvania lawyers Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Democratic Party Pennsylvania state senators People from Columbia County, Pennsylvania People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War Writers from Pennsylvania 19th-century American lawyers