James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States
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search English: James Buchanan (April 23, 1791–June 1, 1868) was the
15th (1857-1861) President of the United States.Svenska: James
Buchanan (23 april 1791-1 juni 1868) var den femtonde amerikanska
presidenten.
James Buchanan (23 April 1791 – 1 June 1868) was the 15th President of
the United States (1857-1861). He was the only bachelor President, and
the only resident of Pennsylvania to hold that office.
, 1854, at Ostend, Belgium, by James Buchanan, American minister
to Great Britain, John Y. Mason, minister to France, and Pierre Soulé,
minister to Spain. William L.
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James Buchanan retired to his estate, Wheatland, in Lancaster where he
wrote his memoirs, the first presidential memoirs in American history.
He died at Wheatland on June 1, 1868.
James Buchanan was born in a log cabin at Cove Gap, near Mercersburg,
Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on April 23, 1791, to James Buchanan
and Elizabeth Speer.
James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth
President of the United States (1857–1861). He was the only President
from Pennsylvania and the only President to never marry.
Buchanan was the son of James Buchanan and Elizabeth Speer, both of
Scottish Presbyterian stock from the north of Ireland. His father had
immigrated to the United States in 1783 and worked as a storekeeper.
* President James Buchanan (standing centre) and his cabinet.
President
James Buchanan (standing centre) and his cabinet.
* Results of the American presidential election, 1856.
James Buchanan was the 15th President of the United States of America,
serving from 1857-1861. He was born on April 23, 1791 in Cove Gap,
Pennsylvania.
renominated by the Democrats , who instead selected James Buchanan of
Pennsylvania; this was thanks in part to the fact that the
Kansas-Nebraska Act divided Democrats.
James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the United States, was born
near Foltz, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, on the 23rd of April 1791.
Both parents were of Scottish-Irish Presbyterian descent.
James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th president
of the United States (1857–1861). He was the only bachelor president,
and the only resident of Pennsylvania to hold that office.
jowls, James Buchanan was the only President who never married.
Presiding over a rapidly dividing Nation, Buchanan grasped
inadequately the political realities of the time.
When James Buchanan, the fifteenth President of the US died in 1868,
he was reported to say the day before his death that history would one
day vindicate him.
