Joseph T. Buckingham
Joseph Tinker Buckingham (December 21, 1779[1][2] – April 10, 1861[2]) was an American journalist and politician in New England. He rose from humble beginnings to become an influential conservative intellectual in Boston.
Family and early life
Buckingham was born Joseph Buckingham Tinker
Joseph was
Journalism
While setting up as a
On 2 March 1824, Buckingham founded the
Politics
Buckingham served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for Boston and Cambridge[2] in 1828, 1831–1833, 1836, and 1838–39,[1] as a National Republican,[7] and later a Whig. He introduced a report in 1833 in favor of the suppression of lotteries.[1][18] He denounced the Tariff of 1833, switching his allegiance from Henry Clay to Daniel Webster.[19]
He represented
Later life
After retiring from politics and journalism, Buckingham published two two-volume sets of memoirs,[1] and edited the annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association.
References
Primary
- Buckingham, Joseph Tinker (1852). Specimens of Newspaper Literature: with Personal Memoirs, Anecdotes, and Reminiscences. Boston: Redding & Co.
- Buckingham, Joseph Tinker (1852). Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields.
- Joseph Tinker Buckingham, ed. (1853). Annals of the Massachusetts charitable mechanic association. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
Secondary
- Crocker, Matthew H. (1999). The magic of the many: Josiah Quincy and the rise of mass politics in Boston, 1800-1830. Univ of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-222-4.
- Evert Augustus Duyckinck; George Long Duyckinck, eds. (1856). "Joseph T. Buckingham". Cyclopaedia of American literature. Vol. 2. C. Scribner. pp. 19–20.
- Howard B. Rock; Paul A. Gilje; Robert Asher, eds. (1995). American artisans: crafting social identity, 1750-1850. JHU Press. ISBN 0-8018-5029-0.
- Laurie, Bruce. ""Spavined Ministers, Lying Toothpullers, and Buggering Priests": Third-Partyism and the Search for Security in the Antebellum North". American artisans. pp. 98–120.
- Kornblith, Gary J. "Becoming Joseph T. Buckingham: The struggle for artisanal independence in Early-Nineteenth-Century Boston". American artisans. pp. 123–135.
- Mott, Frank Luther (1930). A history of American magazines. Vol. 1: 1741–1850. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-39550-6.
- "Miscellany". The Historical Magazine. 5 (7). New York: Charles B. Richardson & Co: 224. July 1861.
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Cyclopaedia of American literature
- ^ a b c d Historical Magazine
- ^ a b c Kornblith, p.124
- ^ Personal Memoirs, pp.4–5
- ^ Mott, p.224
- ^ a b c Kornblith, p.125
- ^ a b c Kornblith, p.128
- ^ Crocker, p.21
- ^ a b Kornblith, p.126
- ^ Crocker, p.43
- ^ Crocker, p.84
- ^ Crocker, pp.122–3
- ^ A correct statement and review of the trial of Joseph T. Buckingham: for an alleged libel on the Rev. John N. Maffit, before the Hon. Josiah Quincy, judge of the Municipal court, Dec. 16, 1822. W.S. Spear. 1822.
- ^ Laurie, p.102
- ^ a b
Cave, Alfred A. (1999). "New-England Magazine 1831-1835". In Ronald Lora, William Henry Longton (ed.). The conservative press in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century America. Historical guides to the world's periodicals and newspapers. Greenwood. p. 129. ISBN 0-313-31043-2.
- ^ "The New-England Magazine". 1831.
- ^ Kornblith, p.133
- ^ Kornblith, p.131
- ^
Peterson, Merrill D. (1982). Olive Branch and Sword: The Compromise of 1833. Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures. LSU Press. p. 94. ISBN 0-8071-2497-4.
- ^
Morris, Thomas D. (2001). Free men all: the personal liberty laws of the North, 1780-1861. The Lawbook Exchange. p. 160. ISBN 1-58477-107-0.
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