Known as Great Elm, the Georgian Colonial-style home in Sharon, Connecticut, has been the Buckley family homestead since 1923, when patriarch and oil speculator William F. Buckley Sr. bought the residence. “He had just previously been...
William F. BuckleyWilliam Frank Buckley was born on 24th November, 1925. The son of William Buckley Sr., a Texas oil millionaire, he began studying at the University of Mexico in 1943. The following year he joined the United States Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant.After...
William F. Buckley, Jr. William F. Buckley, Jr. was born November 24, 1925, in New York City and was the sixth of ten children in a large Catholic family. Buckley is the son of William Frank Buckley Sr., a lawyer and oil developer from Texas, and Aloise Josephine Antonia (Steiner)...
"William F. Buckley Sr.: Witness to the Mexican Revolution, 1908–1922" by John A. Adams Jr. is a biography of William F. Buckley Sr., an attorney and oilman from San Diego, Texas. The book explores Buckley's role in the Tampico oil boom in Mexico and his expe...