President James Buchanan 1857-1861 http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/b/ed_BuchananJ.html

James Buchanan 1791-1868 http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/spec/exhibits/pnc_riggs/prez.html

First Lady Harrriet Lane http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=16

Harriet Lane 1830-1903 https://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_pictures/presidentshouse_buchanan-02.html

Vice President John C. Breckinridge 1857-1861 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Breckinridge

Secretary of State Lewis Cass 1857-1860 http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/sw-sa/Cass.htm

James Buchanan was born in a log cabin April 23, 1791 http://encarta.msn.com/media_461520789_761560262_-1_1/Birthplace_of_James_Buchanan.html

1832 James Buchanan Minister to Russia http://moscow.usembassy.gov/ministers-and-ambassadors.html

Secretary of State James Buchanan 1845-1849 http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/secretaries/jbuchanan.htm

1846 The Oregon Treaty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kmusser/Archive1#Oregon_dispute_maps

1846 The Dred Scott Decision http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/africanamerican/scott/scott.asp

1854 James Buchanan Minister to Great Britain http://www.civilwarhistory.com/slavetrade/causes.htm

1856 Congressman James Buchanan http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.house.gov/pitts/press/commentary/010725c-buchanan.htm

1856 Presidential candidate Buchanan http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/pres/history.html

1856 Buchanan elected. Presidential Candidate John C. Fremont had 114 votes vs 174 with running mate William L. Dayton http://www.explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?storyId=9&imgId=983

1856 Third party Presidential Candidate former President Millard Fillmore received 8 votes with running mate A. J. Donelson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fillmore2.JPG

1857 President James Buchanan's inauguration http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/inaugural-exhibit.html

Speaker of the House James Lawrence Orr 1857-1859, Confederate Senator S. Carolina 1861, S. Carolina Governor 1866 http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=O000104

Supreme Court Justice Nathan Clifford 1858-1881 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Clifford

May 11, 1858 Minnesota Statehood http://www.alaskacoinexchange.com/Stamps%203.htm

February 14, 1859 Oregon Statehood http://www.50states.com/flag/orflag.htm

1859 John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry http://johnbrownwaxmuseum.com/raid.htm

Governor of N.J. 1837-1843, Speaker of the House William Pennington 1860-1861 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lawrence_Orr

Secretary of State Jeremiah S. Black 1860-1861 http://www.salisburypa.com/salisburyschool2.html

1860 Seven slave states succeeded before the end of the Buchanan administration http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/Confederate_states_America.htm

January 29, 1861 Kansas Statehood http://www.mcpherson.com/~kansas/seal.html

1861 South Carolinians fire on the Union Ship "Star of the West" http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/major-anderson-ft-sumter_Dir/first-shot-civil-war.htm

James Buchanan's Home "Wheatland" in Lancaster, PA http://www.antiquesjournal.com/pages04/monthly_pages/march06/wheatland.html

1957 Mathew Brady photograph of James Buchanan in the year of his inauguration http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/presidential_photos/photo1.html