James L. Buckley

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James Lane Buckley (March 9, 1923 – August 18, 2023) was an American politician, jurist, diplomat, and author. Buckley served in the United States Senate as a member of the Conservative Party of New York State , held multiple positions within the Reagan administration , and served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit . He was a brother of prominent conservative author and commentator William F. Buckley Jr.

Buckley defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Charles Goodell and Democratic U.S. Representative Richard Ottinger in the 1970 U.S. Senate election as the nominee of the Conservative Party of New York . He served in the Senate from 1971 to 1977; Democrat Daniel Moynihan defeated him in 1976. Buckley also ran for the U.S. Senate in the 1980 United States Senate election in Connecticut , but was defeated by Democrat Chris Dodd . During the first Reagan administration, Buckley served as Undersecretary of State for International Security Affairs . He was also President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from 1982 to 1985.

Buckley was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on October 16, 1985. On December 17, 1985, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and received his commission. Buckley assumed senior status in 1996. He had the distinction of having held a constitutional office in each of the three branches of the American federal government .

Contents

• 1 Early life, education, family, and early career

• 2 United States Senate

  • 2.1 Elections

    • 2.1.1 1968

    • 2.1.2 1970

    • 2.1.3 1976

    • 2.1.4 1980

  • 2.2 Tenure

• 3 1976 'Draft Buckley' movement

• 4 Post-Senate business career

• 5 Reagan administration

• 6 United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

• 7 Later life and death

• 8 Political positions

• 9 Electoral history

• 10 Publications

• 11 Notes

• 12 References

• 13 Works cited

• 14 Further reading

• 15 External links

Early life, education, family, and early career

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James Lane Buckley was born on March 9, 1923, in Manhattan , New York City, to Aloise Steiner and William Frank Buckley Sr. , the fourth of ten children to the couple.

Because his father spoke Spanish to the Buckley children when Buckley was very young, Buckley learned Spanish before he learned English. He was the older brother of the late conservative writer William F. Buckley Jr. and the uncle of Christopher Taylor Buckley . He was also the uncle of Brent Bozell III and political consultant William F. B. O'Reilly . His mother, from New Orleans, was of Swiss-German, German, and Irish descent, while his paternal grandparents, from Hamilton, Ontario , Canada, were of Irish ancestry.

Buckley attended Millbrook School . He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1943; at Yale, he was a member of Skull and Bones .

Buckley enlisted in the United States Navy in 1942. During World War II , he participated in the battles of Leyte , Lingayen Gulf , and Okinawa . Buckley was discharged with the rank of Lieutenant (junior grade)

in 1946. After receiving his Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1949, he was admitted to the bar of Connecticut in 1950 and practiced law until 1953, when he joined The Catawba Corporation as vice president and director. In 1965, he

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