In 1970, Mr. Buckley, the son of an oil tycoon and the brother of a leading force on the right, became the first third-party candidate elected to the U.S. Senate in 30 years.
At Yale, James Buckley wrote a column on world affairs for the Yale Daily News while advocating conservative positions in campus debates. After graduation in 1943, he served in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II and then completed Yale Law School in 1949.
James Buckley, who shared with his younger brother William a familial zeal for conservative politics and served in top positions in all three branches of government, was the oldest-living former US senator.
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