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SHARON - James L. Buckley, who spent most of his life in Sharon, Connecticut, died in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Aug. 18. He was 100 years old. He died of natural causes. Mr. Buckley was born in New York City on Mar. 9 1923, the fourth of the ten children of William F. and Aloise Steiner Buckle
In 1970, Mr. Buckley, the son of an oil tycoon and the brother of a leading force on the right, became the first third-party candidate elected to the U.S. Senate in 30 years.
James L. Buckley turns 100 Thursday. America’s oldest living former senator and older brother of the late William F. Buckley Jr., Jim Buckley achieved the first third-party victory to the Senate in 40 years when he won in 1970 as the candidate of the Conservative Party in New York. A veteran of World War II, a corporate lawyer, father and husband, Jim Buckley served in all three branches of the federal government as undersecretary of state in the Reagan administration and later as president of Radio Free Europe.
James L. Buckley, America’s oldest living former senator and older brother of the late William F. Buckley Jr., turns 100 Thursday.
William F. Buckley Jr. was the renaissance man of modern American conservatism.