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American President: James Buchanan - http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/buchanan
Fact file and comprehensive biographical sketch in addition to quotations, links, and resources for teachers. Includes an essay on Harriet Lane, Buchanan's niece, who served as first lady in the White House. From the Miller Center on Public Affairs. |
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National Portrait Gallery: James Buchanan - http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/hall/buch.htm
Oil painting on canvas by George Healy, 1859. "When artist George Healy presented his bill for the picture, Congress refused to pay it." |
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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress - Buchanan, James, (1791 - 1868) - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001005
Short biography along with political party, years of service in Congress and bibliography. |
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James Buchanan Foundation - http://www.wheatland.org/
Introduces Wheatland, Buchanan's rural Lancaster County home. Also includes biographical sketches of the President and his niece Harriet Lane, who fulfilled the role of first lady during his administration. |
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James Buchanan Resource Center - http://deila.dickinson.edu/buchanan/
Online materials include three biographies, Buchanan's own memoir, his printed collected writings, and a selection of original letters from the Special Collections of Dickinson College. |
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James Buchanan - http://www.usa-presidents.info/buchanan.htm
Provides information about and biography of American President James Buchanan. |
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TomPaine.com: The Other Buchanan Controversy - http://www.tompaine.com/Archive/scontent/2458.html
Professional discussion regarding sociologist Jim Loewen's book which claims that US President James Buchanan was gay. |
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James Buchanan Memorial in Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C - http://www.dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0001810.htm
Photos of monument in bronze, marble, and granite, 1929 by Hans Schuler. |
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The Ostend Manifesto - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Ostend/ostend.html
The 1854 proposal, signed by then Minister to England James Buchanan and others, urging President Franklin Pierce to purchase Cuba from Spain. |
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James Buchanan Collection - http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/BAH/dam/mg/mg28.htm
Biography and description of eighteen letters written by James Buchanan held in the Pennsylvania state archives. |
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Short Answers to Reckless Fabrications, Against the Democratic Candidate for President, James Buchanan - http://books.google.com/books?id=z7jfs4usOdcC
Political tract from 1856. E-text by Google Books. |
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Protest of the President Against Certain Proceedings of the House of Representatives - http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AEW6151.0001.001
President Buchanan's formal complaint filed March 28, 1860 against the House of Representatives for their investigation for possible impeachment by the committee chaired by John Covode of Pennsylvania. |
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Wheatland - http://www.antiquesjournal.com/Pages04/Monthly_pages/march06/wheatland.html
A description of Buchanan's estate in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with an emphasis on conservation and restoration efforts. New England Antiques Journal, March 2006. |
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Buchanan's Birthplace State Park - http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/buchanansbirthplace.aspx
Provides basic information about this 18.5-acre park nestled in a gap of the Tuscarora Mountain in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Also includes presidential trivia. |
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James Buchanan, Inauguration, March 4, 1857 - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/piwi02.html
Descriptions from the journal entries of Montgomery Meigs the supervisory engineer of the Capitol in 1857. Includes the first known photograph of a Presidential inauguration, taken by John Woods. |