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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriAylett Hawes BUCKNER
(1816-1894)
BUCKNER, Aylett Hawes,
(nephew of Aylett Hawes and cousin of Richard Hawes and Albert
Gallatin Hawes), a Representative from Missouri; born in
Fredericksburg, Va., December 14, 1816; attended Georgetown
College, Washington, D.C., and the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville; engaged in teaching for several years; moved to
Palmyra, Mo., in 1837; served as deputy sheriff; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Bowling
Green, Mo.; became editor of the Salt River Journal; elected clerk
of the Pike County Court in 1841; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1850
and continued the practice of law; attorney for the Bank of the
State of Missouri in 1852; appointed commissioner of public works
in 1854 and served until 1855; returned to Pike County and settled
on a farm near Bowling Green; elected judge of the third judicial
circuit in 1857; delegate to the convention held in Washington,
D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending
war; moved to St. Charles, Mo., in 1862 and became interested in
the manufacture of tobacco in St. Louis; also engaged in mercantile
pursuits; moved to Mexico, Audrain County; member of the Democratic
central committee in 1868; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1872; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to
the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1885);
chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Forty-fourth
Congress), Committee on Banking and Currency (Forty-fifth,
Forty-sixth, and Forty-eighth Congresses); declined to be a
candidate for reelection in 1884 and retired from public life; died
in Mexico, Mo., February 5, 1894; interment in Elmwood
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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