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After his graduation from law school, Buckley joined the legal staff of Gulf Oil Corporation (1956-1959) and settled in New Orleans. He was in private practice from 1959-1964.
After his graduation from law school, Buckley joined the legal staff of Gulf Oil Corporation (1956-1959) and settled in New Orleans. He was in private practice from 1959-1964.
In 1960, Buckley was the GOP nominee for the Second Congressional District against the incumbent [[Democrat]] Hale Boggs. Boggs easily prevailed, 81,034 (78 percent) to Buckley's 22,818 (22 percent). In the same election, John F. Kennedy easily defeated [[Richard M. Nixon]] in Louisiana. In the neighboring Sixth Congressional District race, the Republican Charles H. Dillemuth, a Baton Rouge businessman, polled only 14 percent of the vote against incumbent Democrat U.S. Representative James H. Morrison of Hammond.
In 1960, Buckley was the GOP nominee for the Second Congressional District against the incumbent [[Democrat]] Hale Boggs. Boggs easily prevailed, 81,034 (78 percent) to Buckley's 22,818 (22 percent). In the same election, John F. Kennedy easily defeated [[Richard M. Nixon]] in Louisiana. In the neighboring Sixth Congressional District race, the Republican [[Charles H. Dillemuth]], a Baton Rouge businessman, polled only 14 percent of the vote against incumbent Democrat U.S. Representative James H. Morrison of Hammond.
Early in 1962, Buckley ran for mayor of New Orleans but lost as the Republican nominee to Democrat Victor H. Schiro for the right to succeed retiring Mayor deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr., a three-time gubernatorial candidate. Buckley's New Orleans mayoral campaign was said to have paralleled and foreshadowed his cousin's 1965 bid as the Conservative Party nominee against [[John V. Lindsay]] in New York City.
Early in 1962, Buckley ran for mayor of New Orleans but lost as the Republican nominee to Democrat Victor H. Schiro for the right to succeed retiring Mayor deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr., a three-time gubernatorial candidate. Buckley's New Orleans mayoral campaign was said to have paralleled and foreshadowed his cousin's 1965 bid as the Conservative Party nominee against [[John V. Lindsay]] in New York City.