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Senator James L. Buckley
(Washington, DC) – Former New York Senator James L. Buckley is dead at the age of 100, having passed away on Friday at a hospital in Washington, DC. He was born in New York City in 1923 and eventually won the race for US Senator in 1970, running as a member of the Conservative party.
Buckley also made a bid to become one of Connecticut’s senators in 1980 but lost to Democrat Chris Dodd. Later he was a member of the Reagan administration, and was also president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for a period in the 1980s. He was appointed as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President Reagan in 1985, and became a senior judge in 1996. Buckley is one of the few people to serve in all three of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal government.
He was predeceased by his younger brother William F. Buckley in 2008, who founded the conservative magazine the National Review.
