James Francis Buckner

Birth Date

1813-09-01

Death Date

1889-08-04

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkinsville, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and soldier. Caroline County, Virginia, native. Son of James Buckner and Lucy Madison Buckner. Married to Gabriella Lewis Hawkins Buckner. Father of Gabriel Lewis Buckner, Lucy M. Buckner, and James F. Buckner, Jr. Graduate of Transylvania Law School in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1836. Represented Christian County in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1839 to 1847. Delegate to the Whig convention at Baltimore, Maryland in 1844 and nominated Henry Clay for the U.S. presidency. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1847. Represented Christian County in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1848 to 1859. Owned nine enslaved persons in Christian County in 1850. Owned sixty-one enslaved persons in Hopkinsville in 1860. Hired three enslaved persons to Samuel L. Salter in Christian County in 1860. Elected Colonel of unorganized recruits for the United States Army near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in August 1861. Captured by the Confederate States Army in September 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Town of Hopkinsville, p. 427. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District No. 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Town of Hopkinsville, p. 44. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Town of Hopkinsville, pp. 30-31. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Unnamed District, p 26. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 126. Josiah Stoddard Johnston, Memorial History of Louisville from Its First Settlement to the Year 1886, vol. I, (Louisville, Ky.: American Biographical Publishing Company, 1896), pp. 450-51. The Union Army: States and Regiments, Vol. IV (Madison, Wis.: Federal Publishing Company, 1908), 344. Find A Grave, "Col James Francis Buckner (1813-1889)," Memorial #91781547, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91781547 (accessed January 10, 2018).

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