Leland Stanford Buckmaster (March 30, 1894 – January 2, 1967) was an American trade unionist.
Born in Geneva, Indiana, Buckmaster studied at Tri-State College, before becoming a schoolteacher.
He joined what became the United Rubber Workers of America in 1933, and began working full-time for the union in 1937.
[1] He was removed from office by the executive board in 1949, on a charge of malfeasance,[2] but the union's convention later in the year voted to reinstate him.
[3] Buckmaster became a vice president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and took a leading role in merging it with the American Federation of Labor.