James Buchanan
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Career Highlights
| In office March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861 | |
| Vice President | John C. Breckinridge |
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| Born | April 23, 1791 Cove Gap, Pennsylvania |
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| Died | June 1, 1868 Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
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| United States Minister to the United Kingdom | |
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| In office August 23, 1853 – March 15, 1856 |
| United States Secretary of State | |
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| In office March 10, 1845 – March 7, 1849 |
| United States Senator from Pennsylvania | |
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| In office December 6, 1834 – March 5, 1845 |
| United States Minister to Russia | |
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| In office June 11, 1832 – August 5, 1833 |
| Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee | |
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| In office March 5, 1829 – March 3, 1831 |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania | |
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| In office March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1831 |
| Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Lancaster County | |
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| In office 1814–1816 |
| Political party | Democratic |
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| Education | Dickinson College (BA) |
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Presidents
- George Washington
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- John Quincy Adams
- Andrew Jackson
- Martin Van Buren
- William Henry Harrison
- John Tyler
- James K. Polk
- Zachary Taylor
- Millard Fillmore
- Franklin Pierce
- James Buchanan
- Abraham Lincoln
- Andrew Johnson
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- James Garfield
- Chester Arthur
- Grover Cleveland
- Benjamin Harrison
- William McKinley
- Theodore Roosevelt
- William Howard Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren G. Harding
- Calvin Coolidge
- Herbert Hoover
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- Dwight Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Richard Nixon
- Gerald Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan
- George H. W. Bush
- Bill Clinton
- George W. Bush
- Barack Obama
- Donald Trump
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