 James L. Buckley - Senate Races: Encyclopedia II - James L. Buckley - Senate RacesIn 1968, Buckley challenged liberal Republican Senator Jacob Javits for re-election. Javits won easily, but Buckley received a large number of votes from disaffected conservative Republicans, and in 1970, ran for the US Senate against liberal Republican incumbent Charles Goodell. Goodell had been appointed to the Senate by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and had made a name for himself in the Senate as an opponent of the Vietnam War.
With Goodell and the Democratic nominee, Richard Ottinger, splitting the liberal vote, Buckley wo ...
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