James Buchanan
James Buchanan was the fifteenth president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861.
His presidency is remembered for failing to address the sectional crisis over slavery that led to the Civil War.
Historians consistently rank him among the worst American presidents.
He remains the only president from Pennsylvania and the only one who never married.
Blue party supporter
- electionOrganized public voting
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- partyGathering for celebration
- platformRaised flat structure
senate · legislation · partisan · factionalism · polarization · compromise · division · congressman
Before a war's start
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- Dred ScottAntebellum freedom-suit plaintiff
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
Kansas-Nebraska Act · slavery · disunion · lame-duck · ineffectiveness · failure · unpopularity · ineptitude
Northeastern founding colony state
- LancasterEnglish dynasty, fifteenth century
- bachelorUnwed male adult
- lawyerLicensed legal representative
- FederalistConstitutional ratification supporter
Official foreign representative
- envoyAccredited diplomatic representative
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- foreign relationsTies between sovereign states
protocol · statecraft · international · accord · delegation · diplomatic · consulate · mediation
Democrat
Blue party supporter
platform · senate · legislation · partisan · factionalism · polarization · compromise · division · congressman · senator
antebellum
Before a war's start
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- Dred ScottAntebellum freedom-suit plaintiff
secession · Kansas-Nebraska Act · slavery · disunion · lame-duck · ineffectiveness · failure · unpopularity · ineptitude · executive
Pennsylvania
Northeastern founding colony state
ambassador
Official foreign representative
- envoyAccredited diplomatic representative
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
foreign relations · protocol · statecraft · international · accord · delegation · diplomatic · consulate · mediation
- Buchanan Presidency
- Pennsylvania Politicians
- Famous AmericansAbraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington Carver, Thomas Edison, Rosa Parks
- politicianspoliticians, Joe Biden, congressman, Nancy Pelosi, senator
- 19th Century LeadersLincoln, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Napoleon III, Victoria
- Polk PresidencyManifest Destiny, Mexican-American War, dark horse candidate, territorial expansion
James BuchananAbraham Lincoln
Civil War era leader
George Washington · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Thomas Jefferson · Theodore Roosevelt · Dwight D. Eisenhower