President of the United States from 1857 to 1861
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The only president historians consistently rank as the worst. Buchanan watched the Union fracture and did almost nothing — advocated for states' rights on slavery, intervened to tilt the Dred Scott case, then froze as the South seceded.
Born in Pennsylvania in 1791, Buchanan was a lawyer who climbed steadily: five terms in the House, eleven years in the Senate, secretary of state under Polk, minister to Russia and later to the United Kingdom. He chased the Democratic nomination for years before finally winning the presidency in 1856. Two days after his inauguration in 1857, the Supreme Court handed down Dred Scott — a pro-slavery ruling he'd quietly lobbied for. He pushed to admit Kansas as a slave state under the Lecompton Constitution and pledged to serve only one term. In 1860 he backed his vice president, but the Democrat…
Sourced, dated quotes from James Buchanan
Sir, if you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.
It is said that serious apprehensions are to some extent entertained (in which I do not share) that the peace of this District may be disturbed before the 4th of March next.
All agree that under the Constitution slavery in the States is beyond the reach of any human power except that of the respective States themselves wherein it exists.
I am now ‘solitary and alone,’ having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them.
You have lost a child, a dear, dear child. I have lost the only earthly object of my affection.... I have now one request to make,... deny me not.
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