James Buchanan
Noun
Meaning
15th President of the United States (1791-1868)
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Examples
There is a wrong impression about one of the candidates. There is no such person running as James Buchanan. He is dead of lock-jaw. Nothing remains but a platform and a bloated mass of political putridity.
James Buchanan made a great statement on behalf of the right of revolution. Grant restored the gold standard. Harding denounced US imperialism in Haiti. But overall, my favorite president is William Henry Harrison. He keeled over shortly after his inauguration.
Here’s hoping that a President Joe Biden, a child of Scranton, turns out to be a little more enlightened than James Buchanan.
For example, President James Buchanan, although his father was naturalized as a U.S. citizen, was still a British subject by virtue of his birth to an Irish father.
Most Republicans agreed with Lincoln that the North was the aggrieved party, as the Slave Power tightened its grasp on the national government with the Dred Scott decision and the presidency of James Buchanan.
James Buchanan, The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty, Volume 1, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, 1999, p. 314 Buchanan rejects "any organic conception of the state as superior in wisdom, to the citizens of this state".