The Buchanan-Jackson Party -- The fight for the spoils -- The culmination of a congressional career. 6. Reluctant Diplomate (1831-1833). The politics of the Russian mission -- St. Petersburg -- The ...

Buchanan's faith that the legal system would resolve the slavery issue locked him into inaction.

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).

The President concluded by expressing again a cordial welcome to his visitors, and a wish to take each of them by the hand. The ladies and gentlemen were then severally presented, and many ...

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.

The Ex-President is exceedingly wrothy at every fearless comment upon his past proscriptions and present penitences.

Prior to becoming the 15th president, Buchanan practiced law in Pennsylvania and was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1814.

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 ...

Honoring President James Buchanan A wreath-laying ceremony was held in Lancaster for the 15th president.

If Senator Stephen Arnold (“Little Giant”) Douglas and President James Buchanan had not quarreled over slavery in Kansas, a united Democracy would have nominated Douglas for President at ...

Journalist Strauss (Daddy’s Little Goalie) turns his lifelong interest in U.S. presidents into a biography of the 15th, mining the premise that Buchanan (1791–1868) is the worst of them all ...