SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
PRESIDENT BUCHANAN
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Detailed explanation-1: -James Buchanan, (born April 23, 1791, near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.-died June 1, 1868, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania), 15th president of the United States (1857–61), a moderate Democrat whose efforts to find a compromise in the conflict between the North and the South failed to avert the Civil War (1861–65).
Detailed explanation-2: -Of the 15 vice presidents who went on to become president, eight succeeded to the office on the death of a president, and four of these were later elected president.
Detailed explanation-3: -He was elected five times to the House of Representatives; then, after an interlude as Minister to Russia, served for a decade in the Senate. He became Polk’s Secretary of State and Pierce’s Minister to Great Britain.