James Buchanan

Bu·chan·an

(byo͞o-kăn′ən, bə-), James 1791-1868.

The 15th president of the United States (1857-1861). He tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions, but his moderate views angered radicals in both North and South, and he was unable to forestall the secession of South Carolina on December 20, 1860.

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Buchanan

(bjuːˈkænən)

1. (Biography) George. 1506–82, Scottish historian, who was tutor to Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI; author of History of Scotland (1582)

2. (Biography) James. 1791–1868, 15th president of the US (1857–61)

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Bu•chan•an

(byuˈkæn ən, bə-)

n.

James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.

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They say "Go up, baldhead" to the prophet going his unoffending way in the gray of antiquity; they sass me in the holy gloom of the Middle Ages; and I had seen them act the same way in Buchanan's administration; I remember, because I was there and helped.

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The Earl was appointed also to keep the peace towards the celebrated George Buchanan, who had a pension out of the same Abbacy, to a similar extent, and under the like penalty.

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To the extent that Buchanan was "reacting" to anything, it was "the presuppositions of Harvey Road"--the conceits of Keynes and his coterie who thought themselves intellectual aristocrats positioned to make "the really important decisions" on everyone's behalf.

Buchanan's Big Idea

Their neighbor and companion on the drive, Sharon Buchanan, 70, died the night before or the morning of their rescue, deputies have said.The report does not provide any clues as to how the trio survived that long stranded on a logging road in the Cascade Range east of Interstate 5 about 40 miles south of Roseburg.

Report sheds some light on trio found stranded in forest

(14.) See Brennan and Munger 2013 for an instance of Buchanan's intolerance of overt religious observance.

Buchanan's Accounts of the Serendipitous Discovery of Wicksell: A Case of "Just What Was He Thinking" or ..

John Buchanan, 22, cut the main artery in 40-yearold Archie Ward's leg - in a row over Hannah Blake.

Lover hurls knife at rival and kills him

Her chief villain on this score is James Buchanan, an economist and political philosopher who argued that government actors ought to be subject to built-in structural constraints.

The great James Buchanan conspiracy: a controversial attack on a libertarian-leaning economist mangles the facts beyond recognition. But the book still has something to teach us

Floridians for a Fair Shake, a left-leaning advocacy group not tied directly to Shapiro's campaign, is targeting the yacht in an effort to sink Buchanan's campaign.

BALANCING ACT: SIX-TERM REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN VERN BUCHANAN WALKS A TIGHTROPE IN THE AGE OF TRUMP

Clan Buchanan will now be led by John Michael Baillie-Hamilton Buchanan, who was traced by ancestry expert, Hugh Peskett.

Just call me The Buchanan; CLAN GET THEIR FIRST CHIEF IN 337 YEARS Highlander John traced as leader after epic hunt

Alan Buchanan had admitted a stalking charge aggravated by the abuse of a partner or ex-partner.

Stalker made Facebook threats to ex

James Buchanan, who presided in the four years leading up to the Civil War, have been digitized and are available online from the Library of Congress, along with the papers of his niece, Harriet Lane Johnston, who served as First Lady in the White House.

THE PRESIDENT AND HIS FIRST LADY NIECE

Viewing this work leaves me haunted: Flow can I write with candor about viewing Buchanan's art in a museum today?

Beverly Buchanan