Richard Aylett Buckner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Richard Aylett Buckner

American politician

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1763

Place of Birth: Fauquier County, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 08-Dec-1847

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Richard Aylett Buckner

  • Richard Aylett Buckner (July 16, 1763 – December 8, 1847) was a United States Representative from Kentucky and the father of Aylette Buckner who was also a Representative from Kentucky.
  • He was born in Fauquier County, Virginia and received a liberal education.
  • He moved to Green County, Kentucky in 1803.
  • He studied law and was admitted to the bar and also taught school.
  • He moved to Greensburg, Kentucky in 1811 and practiced law and served as county attorney and Commonwealth's attorney of Green County. Buckner was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1813 and 1815.
  • He was elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1829).
  • In Congress, he served as chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses) but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress. Buckner was appointed associate judge of the court of appeals December 31, 1831, but resigned shortly afterwards.
  • He ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Kentucky in 1832 and then served again as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1837 to 1839.
  • He was a presidential elector on the William Henry Harrison tickets in 1836 and 1840.
  • Buckner was a professor at St.
  • Louis University's law school and instrumental in the founding of that school.
  • In addition, he served as a circuit judge in 1845 and a judge of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky.
  • He died in Greensburg, Kentucky in 1847 and was buried in the family graveyard at the ancestral home, "Buckner's Hill."

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