布坎南，詹姆斯，国会，新泽西州(1791-1868)
方:民主党人
布坎南,詹姆斯,一名来自宾夕法尼亚州的众议员和参议员，美国第15任总统;出生在宾夕法尼亚州富兰克林县默瑟斯堡附近的海湾峡。， 1791年4月23日;搬到了宾夕法尼亚州的梅塞堡1799年与父母一起;接受私人辅导，然后进入乡村学院学习;毕业于宾夕法尼亚州卡莱尔的迪金森学院。, 1809年;搬到了宾夕法尼亚州的兰开斯特，同年;学习法律;1812年获得律师资格并在兰开斯特执业;是1812年战争中第一批志愿军之一，保卫巴尔的摩; member, State house of representatives 1814-1815; elected to the Seventeenth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1831); chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-first Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1830; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1830 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against James H. Peck, judge of the United States District Court for the District of Missouri; Minister to Russia 1832-1834; elected as a Democrat (Jacksonian) to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Wilkins; reelected in 1837 and 1843 and served from December 6, 1834, until he resigned on March 5, 1845, to accept a Cabinet portfolio; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congresses); Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President James Polk 1845-1849; Minister to Great Britain 1853-1856; elected as a Democrat as President of the United States in 1856 and served from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1861; retired to his home ?Wheatland,? near Lancaster, Pa., where he died June 1, 1868; interment in Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.
资料来源:《美国国会传记名录》，1771年至今
