Solomon Bundy

Solomon Bundy (May 22, 1823 – January 13, 1889) was an American attorney and politician, a United States representative from New York.

[2] Solomon Bundy was born in Oxford, Chenango County in 1823, in a period of development in western New York.

He served at high levels of government with Henry L. Stimson under presidents Herbert Hoover and later under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

They served as high-level advisors to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, particularly related to the Vietnam War.

Bundy's three-times-great-grandson, Jake Auchincloss, is a current Democratic congressman representing Massachusetts's 4th congressional district.