President James Buchanan

Former President of the United States, Democratic

Bioguide

Buchanan, a Democratic, was President of the United States from 1857 to 1861.

He was previously a senator from Pennsylvania (1843-1845; Democrat); a senator from Pennsylvania (1837-1843; Democrat); a senator from Pennsylvania (1834-1837; Jackson); the representative for Pennsylvania's 4^th congressional district (1829-1831; Jackson); the representative for Pennsylvania's 4^th congressional district (1827-1829; Jackson); the representative for Pennsylvania's 4^th congressional district (1825-1827; Jackson); the representative for Pennsylvania's 4^th congressional district (1823-1825; Democratic Republican); and the representative for Pennsylvania's 3^rd congressional district (1821-1823; Federalist).

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

President James Buchanan

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