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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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★ Livermore History - Ravenswood

For further reading

★ William A Bullough, ''The Blind Boss & His City: Christopher Augustine Buckley and Nineteenth-century San Francisco'', University of California Press, 1979. ISBN 978-0520037977