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 ...

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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 ...

In 1844, Buchanan ran for president but lost the Democratic nomination to James K. Polk. In 1845, Buchanan was named President Polk’s Secretary of State, and he played a hand in negotiating the ...

But Buchanan, smiling tightly amid all the pomp, was hiding a roiling sickness. He was staying at Washington’s posh National Hotel. And he and most of his entourage that slept there the night ...