Joseph T. Buckingham

Joseph Tinker Buckingham (December 21, 1779 – April 10, 1861 but christened Joseph Buckingham, with his mother's mother's surname, which he adopted legally in 1804. He was the youngest of nine surviving children of Nehemiah Tinker, a tavern-keeper in Windham, Connecticut, descended from Thomas Tinker, one of the Pilgrim Fathers on the Mayflower. before become an apprentice compositor and copy-editor at the Gazette in Greenfield, Massachusetts. he was vice-president in 1830 and president in 1832. In 1815, he went bankrupt, both his publishing and printing businesses being hit by the War of 1812. The New England Galaxy and Masonic Magazine, started in 1817, was popular among the growing number of Freemasons in Boston. The reference to Freemasonry was dropped by 1820 after a backlash. as part of the "Middling Interest" coalition after the Panic of 1819. In 1822, Quincy presided over a libel suit brought against Buckingham by John Newland Maffitt.

On 2 March 1824, Buckingham founded the Boston Courier, In 1831, he started the monthly The New-England Magazine with his son Edwin. its contributors included Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edward Everett, Samuel Gridley Howe, Edwin Buckingham died in 1833, aged 23, on a voyage to Smyrna to relieve his tuberculosis.

According to a new Abraham Lincoln biography, in 1847 a "special correspondent" from Buckingham's Boston Courier named Joseph H. Buckingham (relationship unknown) depicted one of the very first accounts in the national press of the newly elected Illinois congressman, mocking Lincoln as little more than a country politician: "It seemed as if he knew every thing, and he had a kind word, a smile and a bow for every body on the road, even to the horses and the cattle, and the swine."

Politics Buckingham served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for Boston and Cambridge He denounced the Tariff of 1833, switching his allegiance from Henry Clay to Daniel Webster.

He represented Middlesex County

Later life After retiring from politics and journalism, Buckingham published two two-volume sets of memoirs, and edited the annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association.