Frank Charles Bunnell was a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Biography

Frank C. Bunnell was born in Washington Township, Pennsylvania

Washington Township, Pennsylvania

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. He attended the district rural school and Wyoming Seminary

Wyoming Seminary

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 in Kingston, Pennsylvania

Kingston, Pennsylvania

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, until he enlisted as a private in Company B, Fifty-second Regiment

52nd Pennsylvania Infantry

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, Pennsylvania Volunteers, in September 1861. He was promoted and served as quartermaster

Quartermaster

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 sergeant of his regiment during the peninsular campaign under General 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 to Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania

Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania

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, 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

42nd United States Congress

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 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ulysses Mercur

Ulysses Mercur

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. 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

49th United States Congress

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 and Fiftieth

50th United States Congress

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 Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1888. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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. Interment in Gravel Hill Cemetery in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania.