Education
Born in the town of Alden, New York, Bass attended the common schools and was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1856. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858.
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Lyman Kidder Bass
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Career
He commenced practice in Buffalo, New New York In 1865, Bass ran against Grover Cleveland and was narrowly elected district attorney for Erie County. He served in this role from 1865 to 1872.
He was renominated in 1871, but declined to accept.
In 1870, he was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election to the Forty-second Congress. Bass was elected as a Republican United States Representative for the thirty-first district of New York to the Forty-third.
And as Representative for the thirty-second district to the Forty-fourth Congresses. He served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1877.
Because of ill health, he declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876.
In Congress, Bass made a name for himself while serving on the House Committee on Expenditures in the War Department. During his time on the committee, it looked into spending by Secretary of War William Worth Belknap. He was then appointed chief counsel of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company and principal counsel of the Mexican National Railway.
Bass died of consumption, in New York City"s Buckingham Hotel on May 11, 1889 (age 52 years, 179 days).
He is interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New New York
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