In political circles, Mr. Buckley was perhaps best remembered as the lead plaintiff in a landmark campaign finance lawsuit, Buckley v. Valeo.
In political circles, Mr. Buckley was perhaps best remembered as the lead plaintiff in a landmark campaign finance lawsuit —— that in 1976 unraveled part of the post-Watergate regulation of political money. That ruling set the basis for a chain of court decisions, includingin 2010, that embraced the concept that money is equal to speech.
The federal government was a focus of his critical eye through a career that included joining the Senate in 1971, and serving during the Reagan administration as president of Radio Free Europe and then as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.Previously, he was vice president of the family oil business his father established, the Catawba Corp. — owned in equal shares by the Buckley children — which had invested in and managed energy interests around the world.
James Lane Buckley was born in Manhattan on March 9, 1923, and was the fourth of 10 children raised on the family estate in Sharon, Conn., by parents who educated their children in the classics, the doctrine of individual responsibility and Catholicism.The patriarch, William F. Buckley Sr., became an independent oilman who often communicated with his children by memorandum.
In 1968, Mr. Buckley made his first bid for public office. The New York state Conservative Party, founded six years earlier by his brother William, persuaded him to run for the Senate against Paul O’Dwyer, a liberal Democratic lawyer, and incumbent Javits, candidates whom Mr. Buckley said “spoke with one voice.”He lost and resumed his global travels for the family business.
In 1974, Mr. Buckley grew outspoken in opposition to an amendment to campaign finance laws that placed new restrictions on individual donors while expanding public financing for presidential elections, effectively limiting total spending by any one campaign.
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