His son, James Sartwelle Buckley, said that his father had a role in the mechanical design of 11 of the 100 tallest buildings in the world, and 25 percent of the tallest buildings in the United States.
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He also provided scholarships to junior engineering students at Rice and to theological students at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, and Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas.
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Buckley was also a philanthropist who gave generously to Cal Farley Boys Ranch near Tascosa in Oldham County in the Texas Panhandle northwest of Amarillo as well as his church, the Ascension Episcopal Church, Rice University, and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, all in Houston.
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