Thomas L. Bunting
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Thomas Lathrop Bunting was a U.S. Representative
United States House of Representatives
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 from New York
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Born in Eden, New York
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, Bunting was educated in the common schools and the Griffith Institute, Springville, New York
Springville, New York
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He taught school in winters and attended the academy in summer months.
Illness having interrupted his preparation for college, he moved to Hamburg, New York
Hamburg (village), New York
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, in 1868 and later established a general mercantile store.
He engaged in the canning business.

Bunting was elected as a Democrat
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 to the Fifty-second
52nd United States Congress
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 Congress (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893).
He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1892.
He resumed the canning business and also became interested in farming, dairying, and stock raising.
He died in Buffalo, New York
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, December 27, 1898.
He was interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery at Hamburg, New York
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