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

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 inaugural parade of 1857, on a March day that was surprisingly warm, celebrated President-elect James Buchanan with something new to Washington parades: floats. There was the “Goddess of Liberty ...

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.

On a windy day in the late winter of 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th president of the United States, replacing Lancaster’s James Buchanan. At noon on March 4 — inauguration day ...

John C. Breckinridge holds the record for the nation’s youngest vice president, according to The New York Times. He was 36 when he took office in 1857 as James Buchanan’s vice president.

On March 4, 1857, James Buchanan was sworn in as the 15th president of the United States, at the first presidential-inauguration ceremony to ever be photographed. John Wood, who worked as the ...

In the spring of 1887, worn and frail, the engineer James Buchanan Eads propped himself ... In a letter to President Hayes six years earlier, Eads had grandly claimed the project would realize ...

The inaugural parade of 1857, on a March day that was surprisingly warm, celebrated President-elect James Buchanan with something new to Washington parades: floats. There was the “Goddess of ...

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, ...