Conservative Former US Senator Dies

Former US Senator of New York James Buckley died at the age of 100 on Friday.

James Buckley drew national attention when he won his 1970 senate race with the New York State Conservative Party which made him the first ever third party candidate to win a senate seat in New York.

Buckley ended up serving one term in office but would later be appointed by Regan to be on the US Appeals Court for the District of Colombia.

Buckley is one of the few American politicians to serve on the executive, legislative and judicial branches.

James Buckley, conservative former US senator from New York, dead at 100 https://t.co/2NGphydR0q

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Check out what Fox News reported:

James Buckley, a former U.S. senator from New York and judge on the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit, died Friday at 100 years old.

Buckley, the older brother of National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr., is one of the few people to have served in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the Federal government.

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Buckley was born on March 9, 1923. He went to the Millbrook School in New York and then on to Yale, where he majored in English. He served in the Navy and fought in the Far East during World War II. Later, he went to Yale Law School and became a corporate lawyer.

In 1953, Jim Buckley married Ann Frances Coole, who died in 2011.

To celebrate the life of Senator James Buckley, here is an ad from his 1970 campaign. A top tier ad in my book. pic.twitter.com/AwmB7mndkD

— Based Tom 🇺🇸 (@TomEDewey1948) August 18, 2023

Per CNN:

James Buckley, a former conservative US senator and a Reagan-appointed federal judge, has died, the Conservative Party of New York State confirmed to CNN on Friday. He was 100.

Buckley drew national attention when he secured victory in New York in 1970 with the Conservative Party, becoming the state’s first third-party senator. He served one term, during which he called for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion with limited exceptions and urged then-President Richard Nixon to resign following the Watergate scandal.

The party described him as “a man for all seasons” and expressed “enormous debt and gratitude” in the statement shared with CNN.

Former NY Sen. James Buckley dies at 100 | Just The News https://t.co/kmNIZL87WT

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) August 18, 2023