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BUCHANAN, JAMES

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BUCHANAN, JAMES
(1791 - 1868) Fifteenth President of the United States whose hands-off attitude toward states' rights directly contributed to the start of the Civil War. A.L.S. 1p. 4to., Bedford Springs, Aug. 9, 1835, to Secretary of War Joel R. Poinsett, in part: ""...I take great pleasure in recommending Mr. James F. Lamberton...for a Lieutenancy in the army...He is the grandson of Gen. James Lamberton of Carlisle, one of the patriarchs of the Republican party of Pennsylvania..."". With the integral holograph address leaf, very good.