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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.
  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."
  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.
  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.
  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.
  James Buchanan http://www.usa-presidents.info/buchanan.htm
Provides information about and biography of American President James Buchanan.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  History.com - James Buchanan http://www.history.com/presidents/buchanan
Profile of the 15th President includes video and audio galleries along with his biography, a timeline and transcripts of major speeches.
  James Buchanan http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/jamesbuchanan/
Short biography from the official White House site.
  MSN Encarta: James Buchanan http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761560262
Biography and political career.
  James Buchanan http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ppet/buchanan/page1.asp?secid=31
Biography by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
  Life of James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States http://books.google.com/books?id=Ly8OAAAAIAAJ
E-text of 1883 biography by George Ticknor Curtis. Google Books.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  By Telegraph from England: The Queen's Message, The President's Reply http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbpe&fileName=rbpe23/rbpe233/23302200/rbpe23302200.db
The first transatlantic telegraph message and reply. Sent August 12, 1858 between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan.
  James Buchanan's Obituary http://starship.python.net/crew/manus/Presidents/jb/jbobit.html
Reproduced from page 5 of The New York Times, June 2, 1868.
  Internet Archive: President James Buchanan, A Biography http://www.archive.org/details/presidentjamesbu007671mbp/
E-text of 1962 biography by Philip Shriver Klein. Extensive bibliography.
  Internet Archive: Lives of James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge, Democratic Candidates http://www.archive.org/details/buchananbreckinr00cinc/
Glowing biographies from the 1856 campaign.

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