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 ...

The President agreed, set the date for March 6. —James Buchanan believed in strict construction of the Constitution and a laissez-faire Federal policy on slavery. He accepted the pro-slavery ...

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 ...

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 13, No. 1, Jul., 1905 How James Buchanan Was Made President, a... How James Buchanan Was Made President, and by Whom. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill This ...

Born: April 23, 1791, in Stony Batter, Pennsylvania... Buchanan presided over the dissolution of the Union. His faith that the legal system would resolve the slavery issue locked him into inaction.

The President of the United States is a person just like you, and they love their gadgets just as much. Unfortunately, they ...

President James Buchanan President Buchanan, of course, is a special case. He maintained a residence here - Wheatland, on Marietta Avenue - throughout his time as president, from 1857 to 1861.

In the spring of 1887, worn and frail, the engineer James Buchanan Eads propped himself ... In a letter to President Hayes six years earlier, Eads had grandly claimed the project would realize ...

On Presidents’ Day each year ... and the near-traitor James Buchanan. It is a holiday fostered and featured by used-car dealers and mattress salesmen, and enjoyed by families seeking three ...

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, ...