WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY '50 DIES AT 82 2.28.08
William F. Buckley Jr. ’50, whose penchant for the pen beginning in his earliest years at Yale popularized the conservative movement and transformed a generation of American politics, died Wednesday at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 82.
The cause was not immediately known, but Buckley, a former News chairman, had been ill for some time.
From his days as an eloquent orator in debates at the Yale Political Union as an undergraduate to his decades as a prolific columnist, editor, author and television host, Buckley was a force to be reckoned with in weaving his conservative principles into the mid- to late-20th century American fabric — principles developed, in large part, during his time at Yale.
