Charles Waldron Buckley

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Charles Waldron Buckley

Charles Waldron Buckley (born February 18, 1835 in Unadilla , Otsego County , New York , † December 4, 1906 in Montgomery , Alabama ) was an American clergyman, judge and politician ( Republican Party ).

Life

Charles Buckley attended the public schools in Unadilla and Freeport ( Illinois ), where his parents moved in 1846. He graduated from Beloit College in Wisconsin in 1860 and from Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1863 . Buckley served in the Union Army from February 9, 1864 to January 5, 1866 , serving as a chaplain in the 47th Regiment , United States Colored Volunteer Infantry and 8th Regiment, Louisiana Colored Infantry. After that, he was in the years 1866 and 1867 for the Bureau of Refugees and Freed Men asSuperintendent of Education in Alabama. During this time he lived in Montgomery.

Buckley also had a political career. In 1867 he took part as a delegate to the Alabama Constituent Assembly . He also pursued agricultural activities and was involved in banking, fire insurance and mining businesses . After Alabama was re-admitted to the Union, he was elected to the 40th US Congress and re - elected to the two subsequent Congresses . Buckley decided against running for the 43rd Congress in 1872 . He served in the US House of Representatives from July 21, 1868 to March 3, 1873. Buckley held the post of probate judge in Montgomery County between 1874 and 1878 . He then went back to business in the banking and fire insurance sectors. He was Postmaster of Montgomery between 1881 and 1885, then between 1890 and 1893, and between 1897 and 1906. During this time he took part in 1896 as a delegate to the Republican National Convention . He died in Montgomery in 1906, and his body was then transferred to New York City, where he was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery .

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SURNAME Buckley, Charles Waldron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clergyman, judge, and politician (Republican Party)
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Unadilla , Otsego County , New York
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1906
Place of death Montgomery , Alabama