James Buchanan is elected President

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11/04/1856

Democrat James Buchanan was elected the fifteenth President of the United States. (By Joanne Williams) 

Source Citation

Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections, “Timeline,” James Buchanan Resource Center, 2004, http://deila.dickinson.edu/buchanan/timeline/1791_1809.htm

Record Data

Date Certainty

Exact

Type

Campaigns/Elections

Major Topics

Election of 1856

People

Buchanan, James

Documents

Date
1856-12-10	Abraham Lincoln, Speech at a Republican Banquet, Chicago, Illinois, December 10, 1856

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