This category lists pages and sites about James Buchanan (1791-1868), the 15th President of the United States. Buchanan, also known as "Old Buck," served from 1857-1861.
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Introduces Wheatland, Buchanan's rural Lancaster County home. Also includes biographical sketches of the President and his niece Harriet Lane, who fulfilled the role of first lady during his administration.
Fact file and comprehensive biographical sketch in addition to quotations, links, and resources for teachers. Includes an essay on Harriet Lane, Buchanan's niece, who served as first lady in the White House. From the Miller Center on Public Affairs.
Short biography along with political party, years of service in Congress and bibliography.
Provides basic information about this 18.5-acre park nestled in a gap of the Tuscarora Mountain in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Also includes presidential trivia.
The first transatlantic telegraph message and reply. Sent August 12, 1858 between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan.
Glowing biographies from the 1856 campaign.
E-text of 1962 biography by Philip Shriver Klein. Extensive bibliography.
Short biography from the official White House site.
Provides a biography of the fifteenth president of the United States.
Description of manuscript holdings of the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Biography and description of eighteen letters written by James Buchanan held in the Pennsylvania state archives.
Photos of monument in bronze, marble, and granite, 1929 by Hans Schuler.
Online materials include three biographies, Buchanan's own memoir, his printed collected writings, and a selection of original letters from the Special Collections of Dickinson College.
Descriptions from the journal entries of Montgomery Meigs the supervisory engineer of the Capitol in 1857. Includes the first known photograph of a Presidential inauguration, taken by John Woods.
E-text of 1883 biography by George Ticknor Curtis. Google Books.
Oil painting on canvas by George Healy, 1859. "When artist George Healy presented his bill for the picture, Congress refused to pay it."
President Buchanan's formal complaint filed March 28, 1860 against the House of Representatives for their investigation for possible impeachment by the committee chaired by John Covode of Pennsylvania.
Political tract from 1856. E-text by Google Books.
The first transatlantic telegraph message and reply. Sent August 12, 1858 between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan.
Oil painting on canvas by George Healy, 1859. "When artist George Healy presented his bill for the picture, Congress refused to pay it."
Short biography from the official White House site.
Photos of monument in bronze, marble, and granite, 1929 by Hans Schuler.
Provides a biography of the fifteenth president of the United States.
Introduces Wheatland, Buchanan's rural Lancaster County home. Also includes biographical sketches of the President and his niece Harriet Lane, who fulfilled the role of first lady during his administration.
Description of manuscript holdings of the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Provides basic information about this 18.5-acre park nestled in a gap of the Tuscarora Mountain in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Also includes presidential trivia.
Fact file and comprehensive biographical sketch in addition to quotations, links, and resources for teachers. Includes an essay on Harriet Lane, Buchanan's niece, who served as first lady in the White House. From the Miller Center on Public Affairs.
Short biography along with political party, years of service in Congress and bibliography.
E-text of 1962 biography by Philip Shriver Klein. Extensive bibliography.
Glowing biographies from the 1856 campaign.
Descriptions from the journal entries of Montgomery Meigs the supervisory engineer of the Capitol in 1857. Includes the first known photograph of a Presidential inauguration, taken by John Woods.
President Buchanan's formal complaint filed March 28, 1860 against the House of Representatives for their investigation for possible impeachment by the committee chaired by John Covode of Pennsylvania.
Political tract from 1856. E-text by Google Books.
Online materials include three biographies, Buchanan's own memoir, his printed collected writings, and a selection of original letters from the Special Collections of Dickinson College.
E-text of 1883 biography by George Ticknor Curtis. Google Books.
Biography and description of eighteen letters written by James Buchanan held in the Pennsylvania state archives.
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