While not in the chain of command, the Vice President is next in line to take command ... President who started as a private and never wore an officer’s rank. In 1812, James Buchanan passed the ...

He will become the third-youngest vice president in U.S. history. The youngest was John C. Breckinridge who was 36 when he became James Buchanan's vice president in 1857. JD Vance will be the ...

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 ...

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.

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.

On March 4, 1857, James Buchanan was sworn in as the 15th president of the United States, at the first presidential-inauguration ceremony to ever be photographed. John Wood, who worked as the ...