Aylette Buckner

Airlie, Natchez, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1938. Built during Spanish regime. Owned by Aylette Buckner in antebellum days. Used as a hospital for Union soldiers in Civil War

Aylette Buckner (July 21, 1806 – July 3, 1869) was Kentucky planter, lawyer and politician who served as United States representative from Kentucky and the son of who was also a Representative from Kentucky. He may today be best known as the father of Simon Bolivar Buckner, a career military officer who served with the U.S. Army before becoming a Confederate general, and who after being pardoned for his role in the Civil War, was elected Kentucky's governor.