English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
James Buchanan
James Buchanan, Jr.
(; April 23, 1791June 1, 1868) was the
15th
President of the United States
(1857–61), 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 is to date the last former Secretary of State to serve as President of the United States. After Buchanan turned down an offer to sit on the
Supreme Court
, President
Franklin Pierce
appointed him
Ambassador to the United Kingdom
, in which capacity he helped draft the
Ostend Manifesto
.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License