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Buckley, James Lane, 1923-2023

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Personal name headingBuckley, James Lane, 1923-2023
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LocatedNew York (State)
Birth date1923-03-09
Death date2023-08-18
Place of birthManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
AffiliationYale University Conservative Party of New York State Radio Free Europe
United States. Congress. Senate
Profession or occupationLegislators Judges
Found inYale University. Class of 1944. The nineteen forty four class book, 1944
Washington Post Obituaries, viewed August 21, 2023: James Buckley, conservative politician and U.S. senator, dies at 100 (died Aug. 18 at a hospital in Washington ... was 100 and the oldest-living former U.S. senator; career that included joining the Senate in 1971, and serving during the Reagan administration as president of Radio Free Europe and then as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; vice president of the family oil business his father established, the Catawba Corp.; in 1970, running again as the Conservative Party nominee, Mr. Buckley defeated the moderate Republican incumbent; born in Manhattan on March 9, 1923; at Yale, he majored in English literature ... after graduation in 1943, he served in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II and then completed Yale Law School in 1949 ... wed in 1953; Conservative Party candidate; defeated in the 1976 Senate race by Daniel Patrick Moynihan)