Charles Waldron Buckley
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Charles Waldron Buckley (February 18, 1835 - December 4, 1906) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born in Unadilla, New York, Buckley attended the public schools in Unadilla and Freeport, Illinois, where his parents moved in 1846. He was graduated from Beloit College, Wisconsin, in 1860 and from the Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1863. He entered the Union Army February 9, 1864, and served as chaplain of the Forty-seventh Regiment, United States Colored Volunteer Infantry, and of the Eighth Regiment, Louisiana Colored Infantry, until January 5, 1866, when he was mustered out. Alabama superintendent of education for the bureau of refugees and freedmen in 1866 and 1867 and resided in Montgomery. He served as delegate to the Alabama constitutional convention in 1867. He engaged in agricultural pursuits, banking, the fire insurance business, and mining. Upon the readmission of the State of Alabama to representation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress. He was reelected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses and served from July 21, 1868, to March 3, 1873. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1872. Probate judge of Montgomery County 1874-1878. He resumed banking and also engaged in the fire insurance business. Postmaster of Montgomery 1881-1885 from 1890 to 1893, and 1897-1906. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1896. He died in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 4, 1906. He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City.
