More would follow and eventually become the Confederate States of America. James Buchanan served as President of the United States from 1857 to 1861. The Union was torn asunder and it was now up ...

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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 ...

James Buchanan is the only U.S. president from ... During his time as a senator, he opposed the Second Bank of the United States, supported states' rights and argued for the annexation of Texas ...

Until Joseph Robinette Biden shuffled onto the scene, Pennsylvania could only claim one U.S. president, and Franklin County was the birthplace of that president, James Buchanan Jr. Buchanan was ...

Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) was the 30th president of the United States of America ... t have the rights of citizens. Buchanan supported the rights of states to decide whether to allow slavery ...

James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, spent much of his adult life in Lancaster – including the last 20 years at Wheatland.We went to LancasterHistory to learn more about 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, ...