Christopher Augustine Buckley
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Christopher Augustine Buckley, Sr. (1845-1922), commonly called "Blind Boss" Buckley, was a saloonkeeper and Democratic Party political boss in San Francisco, California.
Ravenswood, the Livermore, California, estate he built in 1885 as a summer home, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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- William A Bullough, The Blind Boss & His City: Christopher Augustine Buckley and Nineteenth-century San Francisco, University of California Press, 1979. ISBN 978-0520037977