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Buchanan's faith that the legal system would resolve the slavery issue locked him into inaction. ' ... President James Buchanan, 1857. Library of Congress. Terms: 1857-1861 ...

I became a James Buchanan fan 25 years ago. So I was depressed at how 2000 treated him. He was rated the worst president in the nation’s history — three times. C-Span polled a group of 58 ...

Buchanan also explained why he wasn’t actively involved in the secession battle as president. “It is beyond the power of any president, no matter what may be his own political proclivities, to ...

Buchanan was a five-time member of the House of Representatives, secretary of state under President James Polk, and U.S. minister to Great Britain.

Bay Buchanan's "The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton" cannot be considered a serious biography.

James Buchanan is the only U.S. president from the Susquehanna Valley.He was born and raised in Franklin County, and he lived in Lancaster for most of his adult life.News 8 went to ...

Buchanan, though, was an irrepressible thorn in Polk's side. He continually undermined the president and made his job more difficult (or, at least, that's how Merry painted him in the Polk biography).

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...

What Ex-President Buchanan is About. Share full article. Nov. 10, 1861. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 10, 1861, Page 8 Buy Reprints.

The inaugural parade of 1857, on a March day that was surprisingly warm, celebrated President-elect James Buchanan with something new to Washington parades: floats. There was the “Goddess of ...