
Aylett Hawes Buckner (14 December 1816-5 February 1894) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MO 13) from 4 March 1873 to 3 March 1883 (preceding Robert W. Fyan) and from MO-7 from 4 March 1883 to 3 March 1885 (succeeding Theron M. Rice and preceding John E. Hutton).
Biography[]
Aylett Hawes Buckner was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1816, and he moved to Palmyra, Missouri in 1837 and became a lawyer in Bowling Green a year later. He became editor of the Salt River Journal, moved to St. Louis in 1850, and held several local political positions before serving as a delegate to the 1872 Democratic National Convention. He was a member of the US House of Representatives from 1873 to 1883, and he was a staunch white supremacist who supported the exclusion of African-Americans and Chinese immigrants from the United States. He died in Mexico, Missouri in 1894.