By Will Dunham WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Senator James Buckley, a premier conservative voice in Washington in the 1970s who successfully challenged ...
SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for August 18, 2023 | SaltWireWASHINGTON - Former U.S. Senator James Buckley, a premier conservative voice in Washington in the 1970s who successfully challenged limits on spending by political candidates while championing student privacy rights, died on Friday in Washington at age 100, the Washington Post reported.Buckley served in a high office in all three branches of the U.S.
Buckley asserted that the law's limits on campaign spending violated the right to free speech outlined in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. In its landmark 1976 ruling in the case known as Buckley v. Valeo, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down limits on expenditures by candidates and their committees but upheld limits on contributions to candidates.
Buckley's first involvement in politics came in 1965 when he managed his brother's unsuccessful campaign for New York City mayor. Buckley first ran for office in 1968 as the Conservative Party nominee, losing a New York U.S. Senate race to Jacob Javits, the Republican incumbent.He declared after that loss that he would not run again but changed his mind because he was disturbed by events unfolding in America during the turbulent Vietnam War era.
Buckley lost his re-election bid in New York in 1976 to Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In 1980 he lost a run for the Senate from Connecticut to Democrat Christopher Dodd. Jesse Helms, one of the most conservative Republican senators, urged Buckley to enter the race after Reagan dismayed fellow conservatives by designating moderate Senator Richard Schweiker as his running mate if he won the nomination. Ford won the nomination but lost the election to Democrat Jimmy Carter.
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