American politician
James Needham Buffum (May 16, 1807 – June 12, 1887) was a Massachusetts politician who served as the 12th and 14th Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.
Early life
Buffum was born in North Berwick, Maine on May 16, 1807,[1][4] to Samuel and Hannah (Varney) Bufum.[2]
Career
Buffum was the Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts from 1869 to 1870 and from 1872 to 1873. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was a presidential elector in 1868.[5]
Abolitionist
When Frederick Douglass was dragged out of a train car on the Eastern Railroad, Buffum helped Douglass fight off the mob.[4][6]
In 1845 Buffum went to Scotland with Douglass to protest against the Free Church of Scotland keeping money donated from American slaveholders.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1888), History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Volume 1, Issue 1, Philadelphia, PA: J. W. Lewis & CO., p. 261
- ^ a b c Essex Institute (1889), Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Volume XX, Salem, MA: Essex Institute; printed by the Salem Press and Printing Co., p. 156
- ^ a b c The New York Times (June 13, 1887), JAMES N. BUFFUM DEAD.; A COLLEAGUE OF GARRISON AND PHILLIPS AND A FRIEND OF DOUGLASS., New York, NY: New York Times Company, p. 1
- ^ a b c d Friends' Intelligencer United with The Friends' Journal (June 18, 1887), JAMES N. BUFFUM, Philadelphia, PA: Friends' Intelligencer Association, Limited, p. 398
- ^ "James N. Buffum". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
- ^ "Resistance to the Segregation of Public Transportation in the Early 1840s". primaryresearch.org. March 10, 2009. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
External links
- New York Times obituary; June 13, 1888.
- James N. Buffum at Find a Grave
- Massachusetts Historical Society Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- The Political Graveyard
