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

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 ...

President-elect James Buchanan had no idea what was happening to his body. But political Washington had its suspicions.

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 ...

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 ...

He was one of three US presidents with an Irish born parent. The 11th president, James Knox Polk, and 15th president, James Buchanan, both had Ulster roots. Polk’s ancestors came from Co Derry ...

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 ...

He was 36 when he took office in 1857 as James Buchanan’s vice president. However, JD Vance will be the third youngest person to become vice president at 40 years old, per U.S. News & World Report.

With the rise of partisan gerrymandering of North Carolina’s General Assembly and congressional districts, the lament that ...

He will become the third-youngest vice president in U.S. history. The youngest was John C. Breckinridge who was 36 when he became James Buchanan's vice president in 1857. JD Vance will be the ...

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, ...