Visit Pennsylvania's Only President for Presidents Day
Do you know the name of the only U.S. president to call Pennsylvania his home state?
Although the Philadelphia area is packed with Revolutionary history and the executive mansion was in Philadelphia for a decade, the state of Pennsylvania has only had one native son take the Presidential oath of office. James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States of America. “A Unionist and moderate Democrat, Buchanan won the presidential election in 1856, because voters held the futile hope that he could calm the bitter disputes between the North and South about slavery,” according to the National Park Service. Buchanan lived his life in central Pennsylvania. He was was born in Mercersburg, Franklin County, and educated at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Cumberland County. He studied law in Lancaster, where he established …
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8:45 am on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Buchanan is universally regarded as the worst of all the US presidents. He did nothing to to quell the tensions with the south and in fact simply abandoned the office of the presidency once the war started. He was known as the do nothing president because he felt if he did nothing the whole situation would just go away. Once the bombardment of Fort Sumter started his simply left office although … more ›