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James Buchanan elected president
James Buchanan was elected the fifteenth president of the United States, beating out Republican John C. Fremont and Know Nothing Party candidate Millard Fillmore.
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Mormon War
President Buchanan sent a command to Utah to install a non-Mormon governor in what was known as the “Mormon War.” The Mormon War (or Utah War) was a confrontation between the Mormon people in the Utah Territory and the government of the United States. Sensitive to Republican charges that Democrats favored the “twin relics of barbarism—polygamy and slavery,” President James Buchanan moved quickly after his inauguration to find a non-Mormon Governor for Utah, replacing Brigham Young. Alfred Cumming (1802–1873), the newly appointed Governor,...
Glossary Term – Person
James Buchanan
James Buchanan (1857–1861), fifteenth president of the United States, studied law at Dickinson and was admitted to the bar in 1812. After serving in the Pennsylvania legislature, Buchanan was elected to five terms in the US House of Representatives and then appointed as minister to Russia. On his return, Buchanan served for ten years in the Senate. He was appointed secretary of state under President Polk and minister to Great Britain under President Pierce. Nominated by the Democrats in 1856, Buchanan won the presidential election, but his...
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Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
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Abraham Lincoln's views on slavery and its abolition were clearly expressed in speeches and action throughout his political career. This online exhibition, based on a document booklet of the same title produced in partnership with President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home in Washington DC (...
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Lincoln on the execution of a slave trader, 1862
