Group 1, which acted as an advisory "cabinet" to the New York State Superintendent of Banks. After his death in 1942, Governor Herbert H. Lehman nominated F. Abott Goodhue (president of the Bank of Manhattan Company) to take his place. The following year, Buckner was a leader in efforts to organize cooperation of Wall Street banks and trust companies to help title and mortgage companies meet maturities of $700,000,000. He was president of the Realty Stabilization Corporation and in November 1933 when sixty-four committees of bankers and business men were appointed by the Reconstruction Corporation to speed liquidation of more than $3,000,000,000 of assets of closed national and state banks, he was named district chairman for the Second Federal Reserve District, comprising New York and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut. Later career Buckner served as a director of the 1939 New York World's Fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens. He was also a member of the World's Fair finance committee and chairman of the World's Fair executive committee. At the time of his death, he was serving as a trustee of the estate of James A. Stillman and as chairman of the board of the New York Trust Company as well as a member of the trust committee. The company ended the post of chairman after his death. He was also connected with the Sage Land and Investment Company. His seat on the board of National Distillers Products Corporation was filled by then president of New York Trust, John E. Bierwith. Personal life On April 25, 1908, Buckner was married to Paula Kellerman in Kingston, New York. In Manhattan, the Buckners lived at 430 Park Avenue (and later at 142 East 71st Street). They were the parents of: Caroline Buckner (1909–1972), who married Harvard graduate Owen Lloyd Winston, a son of Owen Winston of Gladstone, New Jersey, a director of Brooks Brothers. Newton Buckner (1913–2005), a graduate of St. Paul's School and Yale who served as a Lt. Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II and as the Assistant Secretary to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. In 1937, he married Joan Sterling, a daughter of John C. Sterling of Greenwich, Connecticut. Around 1969, he married Dorothy Blake. Between 1927 and 1929, Buckner hired the Olmsted Brothers to design the landscape architecture at his summer residence in Fishers Island, New York. Buckner died at Doctors Hospital