William F. Buckley, Sr., papers
Contributors: American Association of Mexico
Publisher: Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Austin, TX
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Archives; Petroleum industry and trade; Government policy; History; Americans; Politics and government; Foreign relations
Description: Newspaper clippings, correspondence, and literary productions relating to political conditions in Mexico during the revolutionary period and to Mexico's relationship with the United States and U.S. oil companies operating in Mexico. Narrower topics include revolutionary disturbances in Mexico; the situation of American residents of Mexico, described in materials of the American Association of Mexico and other groups representing Americans in Mexico; the 1914 American occupation of Veracruz; and Buckley's expulsion from Mexico. Clippings, which form the bulk of the papers, are from both Mexican and American newspapers; some are in scrapbooks.

Correspondence pertains to Buckley's professional and personal business and includes reports from field agents. Literary productions include transcriptions of newspaper texts as well as reports, statements, speeches, notes, and interviews reflecting Buckley's opinion of events in Mexico. Materials dating from after Buckley's residence in Mexico are few.
Notes: Title from microfilm container.

Material covers years 1880-1948 with the bulk comprising 1910-1922.

Reel guide and inventory to papers available on the World Wide Web.

Buckley's staff devised a subject arrangement scheme for his papers which was never fully implemented. The papers were borrowed from UT in 1925 by the United States and Mexican Claims Commission and were returned in 1929 in disarray. They were partially restored to their original arrangement; the remainder was arranged into series by format of material.

Born 1881; died 1958. B.S. 1904 and LL. B. 1905, University of Texas. Lived in Mexico from 1908 until 1921, when he was expelled for opposition to the Álvaro Obregón government. In Mexico Buckley served as advisor to U.S. and European oil companies, operated a law firm, and engaged in real estate and leasing of oil lands. In 1914 he founded the Pantepec Oil Company. Buckley was counsel to the Mexican government's delegation to the Niagara Falls Conference in 1914; in December, 1919 he testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Relations as an expert witness on conditions in Mexico. As founder and president of the American Association of Mexico he worked to remove restrictions on U.S. oil and landed interests in Mexico imposed by the Mexican Constitution of 1917. In 1924 he transferred the Pantepec Oil Co. to Venezuela. He continued as the company's president until 1943 and remained active in international oil exploration and production.

In English and Spanish.