Aylett Hawes Buckner

Aylett Hawes Buckner

Aylett Hawes Buckner (born December 14, 1816 in Fredericksburg , Virginia , †  February 5, 1894 in Mexico , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1885 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Aylett Buckner was a member of a well-known family of politicians. He was the nephew of Congressman Aylett Hawes (1768-1833) from Virginia and a cousin of Richard Hawes (1797-1877), the Congressman for Kentucky and Confederate governor of that state. Another cousin was Congressman Albert Gallatin Hawes (1804-1849) from Kentucky. Buckner attended Georgetown College in Washington, DC and then studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville . In the following years he worked as a teacher. In 1837 he moved to Palmyra , Missouri, where he became deputy sheriff . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1838, he began working in this profession in Bowling Green . At that time he also published the Salt River Journal. In 1841 he became a clerk at the Pike County District Court .

In 1850 Buckner moved to St. Louis , where he worked as a lawyer. Two years later, in 1852, he became an attorney for the Missouri State Bank. In the years 1854 and 1855 he was State Commissioner for Public Works . He then returned to Pike County, where he settled on a farm near Bowling Green. In 1857 Buckner became a judge in the Missouri Third Judicial District. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . In 1861 he was a delegate to a conference in the federal capital, Washington, where attempts were unsuccessfully to prevent the outbreak of civil war at the last minute. In the meantime, Buckner moved to Saint Charles . He also worked in tobacco processing and trading. He later moved to Mexico. He became a board member of the local Democratic Party. In 1872 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , on which Horace Greeley was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional election of 1872 Buckner was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the then newly created 13th  constituency of Missouri, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1873. After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1885 . From 1883 he represented the seventh district of his state there as the successor to Theron Moses Rice . From 1875 to 1877 Buckner chaired the District of Columbia Administration Committee. In three of his six legislative terms, he was chairman of the banking committee.

In 1884 Aylett Buckner renounced another candidacy. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he retired. He died on February 5, 1894 in Mexico, where he was buried.

Web links

• Aylett Hawes Buckner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Aylett Hawes Buckner in the database of Find a Grave (English)