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Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion

Contributors:: James Buchanan
Publisher:: D. Appleton 1866
Subjects:: Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
United States--History--1815-1861

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...thereon -- Expressionof public opinion in its favor -- President Buchanan recommends it -- Recommendation disregarded and...report -- General Scott's statement of the interviewwith President Buchanan on 15th December, and observations thereupon --The...

Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age

Contributors:: H. Paul Jeffers
Publisher:: Wiley 2001
Subjects:: New York (N.Y.)--Biography
Brady, James Buchanan, 1856-1917
Businessmen--New York (State)--New York--Biography
Millionaires--New York (State)--New York--Biography
New York (N.Y.)--Social Life and Customs--19th Century

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Notes and SourcesAlas, James Buchanan Brady did not employ the chirographyhe had learned at Paine...Parker Morell, Diamond Jim, The Life and Times of James Buchanan Brady (1934) andLillian Russell, The Era of Plush (1940...

Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc

Contributors:: James B. Given
James Buchanan Given
Publisher:: Cornell University Press 1997
Subjects:: Inquisition
Church History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Languedoc (France)--History
Languedoc (France)--Politics And Government

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James Buchanan Given is Professor of Historyat the University of California at Irvine.

Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England

Contributors:: James Buchanan Given
Publisher:: Stanford University Press 1977
Subjects:: Homicide--England--History--To 1500
Violence--England--History--To 1500
England--Social Conditions--1066-1485

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...in the text, especially those on pp.35, 151-52, 155-57, and 170, concerning Warwick's high homiciderates, should therefore be treated with caution.James Buchanan Given,Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England

Abraham Lincoln - Vol. 2

Contributors:: Albert Shaw
Publisher:: The Review of Reviews Corporation 1929
Subjects:: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Cartoons, Satire, Etc
United States--Politics and Government--1857-1861

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...as a wise, patriotic, andconstitutional sovereign.Your Majesty's most obedient servant,JAMES BUCHANAN.The answer that President Buchanan received was in the most cordial terms:Buckingham Palace, June 22, 1860.My Good...

Notable U.S. Ambassadors since 1775: A Biographical Dictionary

Contributors:: Cathal J. Nolan
Publisher:: Greenwood Press 1997
Subjects:: Ambassadors--United States--Biography--Dictionaries
United States--Foreign Relations--Dictionaries

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Buchanan James. James Buchanan's Mission to Russia: 1831-1833. Arno Press, 1970.Buckley William F. United Nations Journal. Putnam, 1974.Buhite Russell...

Fessenden of Maine, Civil War Senator

Contributors:: Charles A. Jellison
Publisher:: Syracuse University Press 1962
Subjects:: Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869

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...2 volumes. Springfield, Illinois: TheTrustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1925.Buchanan James. Works of James Buchanan. Edited by John BassettMoore. 11 volumes. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1908-10.Bumgardner...

Francis W. Pickens and the Politics of Destruction

Contributors:: John B. Edmunds Jr.
Publisher:: University of North Carolina Press 1986
Subjects:: Pickens, F. W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869
Governors--South Carolina--Biography
South Carolina--Politics and Government--1775-1865

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...1859-1866. Edited by Howard K. Beale.Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1933.Buchanan James. Works of James Buchanan. 12 vols. Edited by G. B. Moore.Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1908-11.Calhoun John C...

Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860

Contributors:: Anne F Hyde
Publisher:: University of Nebraska Press 2011
Subjects:: West (U.S.)--Social Conditions--19th Century
Indians of North America--West (U.S.)--Social Conditions--History--19th Century
West (U.S.)--Commerce--History--19th Century
Families--West (U.S.)--History--19th Century
Fur Trade--Social Aspects--West (U.S.)--History--19th Century

Fur Traders--Family Relationships--West (U.S.)--History--19th Century Frontier and Pioneer Life--West (U.S.) Indians of North America--Commerce--West (U.S.)--History--19th Century Mexican War, 1846-1848--Social Aspects--West (U.S.)
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...Narratives of North AmericanCaptivities, ed. Wilcomb Washburn, vol. 76. New York: Garland, 1976. Buchanan, James. The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers,and Private Correspondence. Ed. John Bassett Moore...

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Anglo-American Isthmian Diplomacy, 1815-1915

Contributors:: Mary Wilhelmine Williams
Publisher:: American Historical Association 1916
Subjects:: Great Britain. Treaties, Etc. United States, 1850 Apr. 19
Panama Canal (Panama)
United States--Foreign Relations--Great Britain
Great Britain--Foreign Relations--United States

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...1758. Contains texts of treaties.British and Foreign State Papers, London, 1841. Valuable.Buchanan James, The Works of James Buchanan, Comprisinghis Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence,collected and edited by John...

Buchanan, James

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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...James Buchanan, 1791–1868, 15th President of the United...Abraham Lincoln to succeed him as President, Buchanan was faced with the secession of...B. Smith, The Presidency of James Buchanan (1975) and biographies by G......

Duke, James Buchanan

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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...James Buchanan Duke, 1856–1925, American industrialist, processor of tobacco products, b. near Durham, N.C. The Civil War left the......

Buchanan, James McGill, Jr.

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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...James McGill Buchanan, Jr., 1919–2012, American economist, b. Murfreesboro, Tenn., Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1948. After teaching at the universities of Tennessee, Florida State, Virginia, and California, he was a professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1969–83) and George Mason Univ....

Black, Jeremiah Sullivan

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......lawyer. As U.S. Attorney General (1857–60) under President Buchanan he hired Edwin M. Stanton, later his successor, to...Black, refused to confirm him. See P. G. Auchampaugh, James Buchanan and His Cabinet on the Eve of Secession (1926); biography......

Cameron, Simon

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......presidential nomination for Martin Van Buren in 1832 and in James Buchanan's election to the Senate the following year. Cameron...attacked the pro-Southern policies of his former friend President Buchanan. At the Republican national convention in Chicago in 1860......

Floyd, John Buchanan

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......52). His cabinet post was a reward for aiding in James Buchanan's successful campaign for the presidency. Though a states...in Charleston harbor was contrary to his orders. When President Buchanan refused to allow him to order Anderson back, Floyd resigned......

Brady, Diamond Jim

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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...Diamond Jim Brady (James Buchanan Brady), 1856–1917, American financier and philanthropist...Baltimore (where he had received treatment) to found the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute. See biography by P. Morrell......

Presidents of the United States ( (table))

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......President) Franklin Pierce Democratic 1853–57 William R. King, 1853 (no Vice President, Apr., 1853–Mar., 1857) James Buchanan Democratic 1857–61 John C. Breckinridge Abraham Lincoln Republican 1861–65 Hannibal Hamlin, 1861–65 Andrew Johnson......

Utah War

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......in U.S. history, conflict between Mormons and the U.S. government. In the spring of 1857, President James Buchanan appointed a non-Mormon, Alfred Cumming, as governor of the Utah Territory, replacing Brigham Young, and......

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Walker, Robert John

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......sovereignty theory, and believed that the majority of Kansans favored admission to the Union as a free state. When President Buchanan refused to support Walker's contention that the proslavery Lecompton Constitution (see under Lecompton) was......