Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 as an opponent of slavery's expansion prompted South Carolina and six other states to secede and form the Confederacy while Buchanan was still in office ...

James Buchanan is the only U.S. president from the Susquehanna Valley.He was born and raised in Franklin County, and he lived in Lancaster for most of his adult life.News 8 went to ...

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 ...

The 15th president, James Buchanan, is the only president from ... for his lack of action leading up to the Civil War. He was ...

In office, he emerged as an advocate for public ... Slaymaker, director of the James Buchanan Foundation, which oversees Wheatland. “He was afraid of the masses, but he was also afraid of ...

REMEMBERING THE UNITED STATES 15TH PRESIDENT ON THE DAY HE WAS BORN. CELEBRATING THE BIRTH OF JAMES BUCHANAN. AND THIS WAS A WREATH LAYING CEREMONY THAT IS DONE EVERY YEAR AROUND THE TIME OF HIS ...