Edward T. Buckingham

Edward Taylor Buckingham (May 12, 1874 – July 30, 1942) was an American Democratic Party politician, lawyer, and jurist who was the Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1909 to 1911 and from 1929 to 1933.

[1][2] He graduated in 1895 Yale University with a Bachelors' of Arts Degree, and then received his law degree from the Yale Law School in 1897.

[3] Buckingham moved to Bridgeport as a child and attended Bridgeport High School (since renamed as Central High School.

The latter stint, marred by unpopular policies made during the heights of the Great Depression, led to his loss to Socialist Jasper McLevy.

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