My new book, Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, aims to answer these questions and set the record straight, so to speak, about the pair. My research led me ...

William Rufus DeVane King ... A lifelong bachelor, King lived for 15 years in the home of future U.S. president James Buchanan while the two served in the Senate. Buchanan, also a lifelong bachelor, ...

Historian James W. Loewen has done extensive research into ... I don't believe he was bisexual." According to Loewen, Buchanan shared a residence with William Rufus King, a Democratic senator from ...

Don't forget James Buchanan, our 15th president. Lifelong bachelor, lived with William Rufus King, and at least a couple people at the time referred to them as the "two queens." This could play ...

One of those – William Rufus DeVane King – called Alabama ... on his relationship with the 15 th president of the U.S. James Buchanan. He and Buchanan, neither of whom married, were roommates ...

William Rufus Devane ... bachelor president, James Buchanan. The two lodged together in Washington, D.C. A biographer of James Knox Polk, Barzman said, wrote that King's "fastidious habits ...