Posted on 10/10/2016 6:33:29 AM PDT by tired&retired
James Buchanan, Jr.; April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th President of the United States (1857–61) Democratic Party, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War.
He represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives and later the Senate, then served as Minister to Russia under President Andrew Jackson. He was named Secretary of State under President James K. Polk, and as of 2016 is the last former Secretary of State to serve as President of the United States.
Buchanan was followed by Republican President Abraham Lincoln who had to deal with the chaos Buchanan failed to address in the USA.
Buchanan was nominated by the Democratic Party in the 1856 presidential election.
Buchanan had once aspired to be a president who would rank in history with George Washington. However, his inability to identify a ground for peace or address the sharply divided pro-slavery and anti-slavery partisans with a unifying principle on the brink of the Civil War has led to his consistent ranking by historians as one of the worst presidents in American history. Historians in both 2006 and 2009 voted his failure to deal with secession the worst presidential mistake ever made.
Is history repeating itself?
Most of this information is cut & paste from Wiki.
While Hillary was born in Chicago, her father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham was born in Pennsylvania and left for Chicago after graduating at Penn State.
In his inaugural address, besides promising not to run again, Buchanan referred to the territorial question as “happily, a matter of but little practical importance” since the Supreme Court was about to settle it “speedily and finally”, and proclaimed that when the decision came, he would “cheerfully submit, whatever this may be”. Two days later, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Dred Scott decision, asserting that Congress had no constitutional power to exclude slavery in the territories. Such comments delighted Southerners and incited anger in the North.
150 years ago was a different world.
I pray that history does not repeat itself....
This is our chance to change the course of history and not allow another democrat president to divide our country leading to another civil war.
If history is repeating itself, it means that she will win and then civil war is just five years away.
Needless to say, I hope history is NOT repeating itself.
Hahahahaha...
Both democrat presidents
Both Secretary of State
Both from Pennsylvania (Hillary’s fathers side at least)
Both facing a divided country
Both dealing with black race issues
Both lousy leaders who create chaos
also:
Both corrupt
Both with zero charisma
It’s a very contrived comparison!
Was Buchanan a liar too?
Both rumored to be gay as well.
Yes, I forgot about that one....
More than 150 years before America elected its first black president, Barack Obama, it most likely had its first gay president, James Buchanan (1791-1868). Buchanan, a Democrat from Lancaster County, Pa., was the 15th president of the United States, and a lifelong bachelor.
After Coleman’s death, Buchanan never courted another woman or seemed to show any emotional or physical interest; a rumor circulated of an affair with President James K. Polk’s widow, Sarah Childress Polk, but it had no basis.[79] It has been suggested that Anne’s death in fact served to deflect awkward questions about his sexuality and bachelorhood.[77] While his biographers such as Jean Baker argue that Buchanan was asexual or celibate,[80] several writers have put forth arguments that he was homosexual or bisexual, including sociologist James W. Loewen,[81] and authors Robert P. Watson and Shelley Ross.[82][83]
A source of this interest has been Buchanan’s close and intimate relationship with William Rufus King (who became Vice President under Franklin Pierce). The two men lived together in a Washington boardinghouse for 10 years from 1834 until King’s departure for France in 1844. King referred to the relationship as a “communion”,[79] and the two attended social functions together. Contemporaries also noted the closeness. Andrew Jackson called them “Miss Nancy” and “Aunt Fancy” (the former being a 19th-century euphemism for an effeminate man[84]), while Aaron V. Brown referred to King as Buchanan’s “better half”.[85] James W. Loewen described Buchanan and King as “Siamese twins”. In later years, Catherine Thompson, the wife of cabinet member Jacob Thompson, expressed her anxiety that “there was something unhealthy in the president’s attitude”.[79]
Buchanan adopted King’s mannerisms and romanticized view of southern culture. Both had strong political ambitions, and in 1844 they planned to run as president and vice president.
Author Robert Thompson described them both as soft, effeminate, and eccentric.[79] In May 1844, Buchanan wrote to Cornelia Roosevelt, “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.
I feel that it is not good for man to be alone, and [I] should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.”[79]
King became ill in 1853 and died of tuberculosis shortly after Pierce’s inauguration, four years before Buchanan became President. Buchanan described him as “among the best, the purest and most consistent public men I have known.”[79]
While author Jean Baker indicated in her biography of Buchanan that his and King’s nieces may have destroyed some correspondence between Buchanan and King, she also stated that the length and intimacy of their surviving letters illustrate only “the affection of a special friendship.”[86]
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