President-elect James Buchanan had no idea what was happening to his body. But political Washington had its suspicions.

In the spring of 1887, worn and frail, the engineer James Buchanan Eads propped himself ... The outbreak of Civil War forced him back to work. Shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter, Eads ...

Pledged to serve only one term — and eager to vacate the White House before civil war became a reality -- Buchanan's antagonistic relationship with Stephen Douglas split the Democratic Party ...

James Buchanan had tried for the Democratic nomination several times and finally succeeded in 1856, in large part because as Ambassador to Great Britain, he had been absent during the controversies ...

On a windy day in the late winter of 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th president of the United States, replacing Lancaster’s James Buchanan ... as the Civil War loomed, or he ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We look now to “Old Buck” - James Buchanan ... in 1814. Buchanan urged patriots to defend ...

We were a divided nation on the brink of Civil War. Buchanan had eked out a victory ... That wasn’t an unusual smell in 1857 Washington. “When James Buchanan took the oath of office, there ...