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May 28, 2024 · James Buchanan (born April 23, 1791, near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died June 1, 1868, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania) was the 15th president of the United States (1857–61), a moderate Democrat whose efforts to find a compromise in the conflict between the North and the South failed to avert the Civil War (1861–65).
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President George H. W. Bush was challenged by conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, and during the early counting of the votes at the New Hampshire primary, it appeared that the president might actually lose. However, Buchanan faded by the end of the evening, and Bush won the rest of the primaries.
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Jan 31, 2020 · James Buchanan’s presidency went on the record as one of the most tension-packed time in the history of the United States. Even before his inauguration in March 1857, the very divisive Supreme Court case – Dredd v.
- March 4, 1857: James Buchanan Inaugurated.
- March 6, 1857: Dred Scott Decision: James Buchanan's presidency never had much of a chance, as it began with the Dred Scott decision that ignited abolitionists and pushed the nation closer to civil war.
- September 7 - 11, 1857: Mountain Meadows Massacre: When Buchanan ordered that Mormon leader Brigham Young be replaced as territorial governor of Utah, the Mormon militia, aided by a group of Native Americans from the Paiute Nation, attacked and killed 140 unarmed non-Mormon emigres who are passing through Utah to California.
- October 5, 1857: Kansas elects an Anti-Slavery legislature.
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- James Buchanan’s Early Years and Personal Life. James Buchanan was born on April 23, 1791, in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania, to James Buchanan Sr. (1761-1833), a merchant who had emigrated from Ireland, and Elizabeth Speer Buchanan (1767-1833).
- Senator and Diplomat. In 1834, after returning from Europe the previous year, James Buchanan was elected to represent his home state in the U.S. Senate.
- Election of 1856. In 1854, President Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which created two new territories and allowed settlers to determine whether they would enter the Union as free states or slave states.
- James Buchanan in the White House. Once in office, James Buchanan appointed a cabinet composed of Northerners and Southerners and hoped to keep peace between the country’s pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions.
Oct 10, 2019 · When he decided to challenge President George H.W. Bush in 1992, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan never won a primary, but he helped expose a rift in the GOP — thus opening room for Ross...
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Buchanan could not claim anything close to a popular mandate in a nation sharply divided over slavery and sectional issues. His base of support was regional—he had won all of the Southern and border slave states with the exception of Maryland, which went to Fillmore.
