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Bundy, Hezekiah Sanford

merchant, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 17, 1817, in Marietta, Ohio. He was in the mercantile business as clerk and proprietor from 1835 to 1846; after that turned his attention to farming, and in 1854 became connected with the furnace business; during all these avocations he studied law, and came to the bar in 1850. He was elected to the state legislature in 1848; re-elected in 1850; in 1855 was chosen a state senator; and was a presidential elector in 1860. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-ninth congress, and to the fiftythird to fill a vacancy.