james buchanan

     

As a senator, he shared lodgings with future vice president William Rufus Devane King

Trivia about james buchanan

  • He said, "I am the last president of the United States"
  • When Grandma Moses was born, this man was president; at her death, JFK was president
  • A U.S. Coast Guard cutter was named for Harriet Lane, this bachelor president's hostess
  • "Bachelor President"
  • Wiliam King, Pierce's VP, used to be the roommate of this bachelor president
  • March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861
  • In 1857 he called the question of slavery in the territories "Of but little practical importance"
  • The widow Sarah Polk was linked for a while in the press to this bachelor president
  • After the White House, he retired to his Lancaster estate, where he died a bachelor in 1868
  • He preceded Abe /The Union, not in great shape /Marriage ain't for him
  • As a senator, this bachelor president roomed with future Vice President William King
  • In 1819 his engagement was broken off; he never married
  • The only president who never married, he was also the only president born in Pennsylvania
  • He was the only president who never married, in or out of office
  • A veteran of the War of 1812, he was the fifteenth president of the United States
  • Born in Cove Gap, Penn. on April 23, he later became the 15th U.S. president
  • The last Secretary of State to become president, he served under Polk & Taylor before being elected in 1856
  • On August 16, 1858 the first cable message across the Atlantic was sent from Queen Victoria to this U.S. president
  • 1,200 quarts of ice cream & a cake 4 feet high were served at his March 4, 1857 inaugural
  • "Ten-Cent Jimmy", as well as "Old Buck"
  • John Brown made his most famous raid while this man was president
  • This "Bachelor President" was affectionately nicknamed "Old Buck"
  • In 1858 this president of the U.S. with the same initials offered a reward for Brown's capture
  • His memoirs of his "Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion" were published in 1866
  • Before reaching the Oval Office, this bachelor president served as minister to Russia in the 1830s
  • ...who succeeded Franklin Pierce as president
  • Federalist turned Democrat Chief of State seen here
  • His efforts to hold the Union together were ineffectual; 7 states seceded on his watch
  • In 1856 he ran as the Republicans' first presidential candidate, but was defeated by this man