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James Buchanan ( 23 April 1791 – 1 June 1868 ) was the 15th President of the United States (1857-1861). He was the only bachelor President, and the only resident of Pennsylvania to hold that office. He has been criticized for failing to prevent the...
James Buchanan (1791-1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States. His administration was dominated by fighting between pro-and antislavery forces. In 1860, at the close of his term in office, South Carolina became the first state to secede...
An incident that occurred just a month before James Buchanan left office in early 1861 would influence history's assessment of him for decades—in a negative way. On that day, a formal declaration of secession (separation) from the Union was...
For other persons named James Buchanan, see James Buchanan (disambiguation). James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth President of the United States (1857–1861). He was the only President from Pennsylvania and the only...
James L. Buchanan started his career with the Boston Police Department by walking the beat in Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, but rose to the rank of deputy superintendent in just eight years. In 1968, he was appointed superintendent of the department, the highest of...
James A. Buchanan, 74, a retired building contractor and regional governor of Rotary International who lived at Inverness Farm in Dickerson, died Oct. 10 at a hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., after surgery for an aortal aneurysm. He was in Jacksonville attending a Rotary conference....
A $100 million fund is being set up by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to pay for five years of research into global warming.The aim of the foundation's Climate Change Initiative is to look at policies that can speed the use of new technologies _...
Question 1 of 10:The war began when the pro-slavery Southern states broke away from the rest of the USA . This act was referred to as...?The JunctureThe Confederate Break The Secession The Dixie DecisionQuestion 2 of 10:Having severed ties with the USA , the Southern...
