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 ...

Woodward Hill Cemetery held its annual wreath-laying ceremony, on Saturday, in honor of President James Buchanan’s birthday, on April 23. The United States' 15th president was honored with the ...

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.

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 ...

The youngest vice president remains John C. Breckinridge, who took office in 1857 as James Buchanan’s VP at the age of 36. In 1953, Richard Nixon became Dwight D. Eisenhower’s VP at the age of 40.

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, ...