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James Buchanan - http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/jamesbuchanan/
Short biography from the official White House site. |
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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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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. |
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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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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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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 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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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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MSN Encarta: James Buchanan - http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761560262
Biography and political career. |
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James Buchanan - http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ppet/buchanan/page1.asp?secid=31
Biography by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. |