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James Buchanan served as President of the United States from 1857 to 1861. The Union was torn asunder and it was now up to ...

While the Kennedys and Trumps of the world were born to wealthy families with large estates, other presidents had far more ...

Legacy: Generally, James Buchanan is regarded as the worst American president. Though it is hard to know what he could have done during the “Secession Winter” of 1860–61 (when the Confederacy formed ...

The image captured crowds of onlookers standing outside the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol—which was still under construction at the time. The foreground area was actually a stone yard that had been ...

Buchanan presided over the dissolution of the ... One implication of the court's decision was that slavery could not be excluded from any U.S. territories. Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 ...

On a windy day in the late winter of 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th president of the United States, replacing Lancaster’s James Buchanan. At noon on March 4 — inauguration day ...

In the spring of 1887, worn and frail, the engineer James Buchanan ... would give the United States much easier access to markets in the Far East. In a letter to President Hayes six years earlier ...

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 13, No. 1, Jul., 1905 How James Buchanan Was Made President, a... How James Buchanan Was Made President, and by Whom. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill This ...

George Washington, the first US president, was born under the sign ... so than his corruption-riddled White House tenure. But James Buchanan is consistently ranked as one of the worst presidents ...

This is not about James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, this is about the economist James Buchanan, the leading figure in public choice theory. The connection to politics, however, ...