Aylett Hawes Buckner

Aylett Hawes Buckner

Aylett Hawes Buckner (December 14, 1816 - February 5, 1894) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri, nephew of Aylett Hawes and cousin of Richard Hawes and Albert Gallatin Hawes.

Born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Buckner attended Georgetown College, Washington, D.C., and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.He engaged in teaching for several years.He moved to Palmyra, Missouri, in 1837.He served as deputy sheriff.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Bowling Green, Missouri.He became editor of the Salt River Journal.

Buckner was elected clerk of the Pike County Court in 1841.He moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1850 and continued the practice of law. Attorney for the Bank of the State of Missouri in 1852.He was appointed commissioner of public works in 1854 and served until 1855.He returned to Pike County and settled on a farm near Bowling Green.

Buckner was elected judge of the third judicial circuit in 1857.He served as delegate to the convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war.He moved to St. Charles, Missouri, in 1862 and became interested in the manufacture of tobacco in St. Louis.He also engaged in mercantile pursuits.He moved to Mexico, Audrain County.He served as member of the Democratic central committee in 1868.He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872.

Buckner was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1885).He served as chairman of the Committee on District of Columbia (Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on Banking and Currency (Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-eighth Congresses).He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1884 and retired from public life.He died in Mexico, Missouri, February 5, 1894.He was interred in Elmwood Cemetery.

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