FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We look now to “Old Buck” - James Buchanan. Prior to becoming the 15th president, Buchanan ...

Two former presidents have ties to South-Central Pennsylvania. The 15th president, James Buchanan, is the only president from the Susquehanna Valley. He was born and raised in Franklin County and ...

The image captured crowds of onlookers standing outside the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol—which was still under construction at the time. The foreground area was actually a stone yard that had been ...

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, ...

Legacy: Generally, James Buchanan is regarded as the worst American president. Though it is hard to know what he could have done during the “Secession Winter” of 1860–61 (when the Confederacy formed ...

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 13, No. 1, Jul., 1905 How James Buchanan Was Made President, a... How James Buchanan Was Made President, and by Whom. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill This ...

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.