James Vincent Buckley (May 15, 1894 – July 30, 1954) was a

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from

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. Born on a farm in

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, Buckley attended the public schools of

. He moved to

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, at an early age and worked in the automobile industry. He engaged in the real estate and building business in the Calumet region of

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, and Lake County, Indiana. During the

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was active in war-plant production service and was elected president of Local Union 714,

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. Buckley was elected as a

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to the Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1951). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress. He engaged in the real estate and building business at

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, from 1951 until his death. He died in

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, July 30, 1954. He was interred in Calvary Cemetery,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Buckley, James V. 1894 births 1954 deaths Politicians from Chicago People from Saginaw County, Michigan Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois 20th-century American legislators