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Definition of James Buchanan

1. Noun. 15th President of the United States (1791-1868).

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Literary usage of James Buchanan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"James Buchanan was born on the 23d day of April, 1791, and died on the 1st day of June, 18C8. Of this long life the larger part was devoted to the service ..."

2. Anecdotes of Public Men by John Wien Forney (1881)
"A few years after, I went to Baltimore (1852) to help to make James Buchanan President. [We were all working to make JB President twenty-five years before ..."

3. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1853)
"As the hopes of the protestant party were entirely centred in King James, Buchanan was, in 1570, selected by the lords of the privy council, and others of ..."

4. Early Indiana Trials and Sketches: Reminiscences by Oliver Hampton Smith (1858)
"James Buchanan, the subject of this sketch, has been so long among the most prominent of the distinguished men of the United States, and so recently filled ..."

5. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1892)
"... but added, " Perhaps the little judge never read Shakespeare, and does not think of this."' James Buchanan was born in Pennsylvania in 1791. ..."

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