The youngest-ever vice president was elected to office when he was 35 years old but turned 36 before his term under James Buchanan began in 1857. He and Buchanan were members of the Democratic ...

He served as the 14th vice president of the US, serving under President James Buchanan, from 1857-1861. Coming from a family of prominent Kentuckians, Breckinridge’s history is complicated.

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.

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 ...

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.

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, ...