Submitted by ke4ktza on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 21:36
James Buchanan
15th President of the United States
(March 4, 1857 to March 3, 1861)
Nickname: "Old Buck"
Born: April 23, 1791, in Cove Gap (near Mercersburg), Pennsylvania
Died: June 1, 1868, at Wheatland (near Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Father: James Buchanan
Mother: Elizabeth Speer Buchanan
Married: Never married. The White House hostess was his niece Harriet Lane (1830-1903)
Children: None
Religion: Presbyterian
Education: Graduated from Dickinson College (1809)
Occupation: Lawyer
Political Party: Democrat
Other Government Positions:
- Member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1815-16
- Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1821-31
- Minister to Russia, 1832-34
- United States Senator, 1834-45
- Secretary of State, 1845-49 (under Polk)
- Minister to England, 1853-56
Presidential Salary: $25,000/year
Vice President: John C. Breckinridge (1857-61)
Cabinet:
- Secretary of State
- Lewis Cass (1857-60)
- Jeremiah S. Black (1860-61)
- Secretary of the Treasury
- Howell Cobb (1857-60)
- Philip F. Thomas (1860-61)
- John A. Dix (1861)
- Secretary of War
- John B. Floyd (1857-60)
- Joseph Holt (1861)
- Attorney General
- Jeremiah S. Black (1857-60)
- Edwin M. Stanton (1860-61)
- Postmaster General
- Aaron V. Brown (1857-59)
- Joseph Holt (1859-61)
- Horatio King (1861)
- Secretary of the Navy
- Isaac Toucey (1857-61)
- Secretary of the Interior
- Jacob Thompson (1857-61)