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James Buchanan Clipped Signature in full

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James Buchanan Clipped Signature in full
<B>James Buchanan Clipped Signature</B></I> in full as president, 10" x 4", also bears the signature of J. S. Black, secretary of state (1860-1861). James Buchanan (1791 -1868) was the 15th president of the United States(1857-1861). He was the only bachelor president and the only resident of Pennsylvania to hold the office of president. As president he was a "doughface" (a northern Democrat allied with the South) who battled Stephen A. Douglas for control of the Democratic Party; Douglas won. Buchanan was a Jeffersonian strict constitutionalist and opposed federal appropriations for most internal improvement projects. Scholars consistently rank him as one of the two or three worst American presidents; although he claimed secession was illegal, he claimed going to war to stop it was also illegal. This inaction laid the grounds for the American Civil War. Fine.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)