Trivia

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 120-128. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Father of author Christopher Buckley.

Responding to Edward R. Murrow's public attacks on him, Joseph McCarthy challenged Morrow to debate Buckley about Communists within the U.S. Government. Morrow refused.

Served in the CIA as a Political Action Officer.

Release of the book, "Losing Mum and Pop: A Memoir" by Christopher Buckley. (May 2009)

Best known as the publisher of National Review, the Conservative periodical, but also is a syndicated political columnist.

One of 10 children of Aloise Josephine Antonia (Steiner) and William Frank Buckley, Sr. His father was born in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to parents from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, who were both of Irish descent. His mother was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, of German, Swiss-German, and Irish ancestry.

Brother of James Buckley, the U.S. senator from New York, who represented the Conservative Party.

Often imitated by Robin Williams.

Served as godfather for three of friend E. Howard Hunt's children. Also served as executor of the estate of Hunt's wife, Dorothy Wetzel Hunt, after she perished in a mysterious plane crash near Chicago in December 1972

Uncle of Brent Bozell. He and Bozell father, L. Brent Bozell Jr., were roommates at Yale and his wife, Patricia Taylor, and his sister (and Bozell's mother), Patricia Buckley, were roommates at Vassar.

He was feuded in writing and debate with liberal economist John K. Galbraith, but nevertheless considered the man a close personal friend, even planning annual ski trips together.