Thomas Lathrop Bunting (April 24, 1844 – December 27, 1898) was an American businessman and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1891 to 1893.

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, in 1868 and later established a general mercantile store.

He resumed the canning business and also became interested in farming, dairying, and stock raising.

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