William Frank Buckley: 1881-1958
The vital statistics are that he grew up in Texas, and as the oldest son undertook, upon the premature death of his father, to look after the health and welfare of his mother, and the education of his three brothers and two sisters. He did this, and educated himself at the University of Texas by teaching Spanish, which he had mastered while living as a boy on the frontier. He went to Mexico to practice law, and saw the revolution against the benevolent and autocratic Porfirio Diaz, and what followed in its wake: and learned, and never forgot, his distrust of the revolutionary ideology.
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