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THBJames Buchanan ALS, February 1857
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Buchanan, James (1791-1868). President of the United States (1857-1861). ALS, 1p, Wheatland. February 28, 1857. Signed James Buchanan. To Colonel John W. Forney.
In this letter to John Weiss Forney (1817-1881), Buchanan is offering him either the Naval office at Philadelphia or the Consulate at Liverpool, for the signal services which you have rendered to the Democratic party.
Forney, like Buchanan, was a Pennsylvanian who served as the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House. He had already served at the port of Philadelphia, appointed by Polk. When Forney left that post, he purchased half interest in the Pennsylvanian, a Democratic paper which attained national status. As head of the Pennsylvania delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati in 1855, he was instrumental in getting Buchanan on the ticket. After helping to get Buchanan elected, his support dwindled, in part over the issue of admission of Kansas to the Union. Forney then joined in the organization of the new Republican Party. He did not take either of these offered positions, but did return to the port of Philadelphia under Grant's administration.
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James Buchanan Jr. (1791-1868) was the 15th President (1857-1861). The last president to be born in the 18th century, Buchanan aspired to be as great as George Washington. The looming sectional disputes would have made that goal difficult for most. He spent most of his working life in politics, beginning with the Pennsylvania House of representatives, then elected to the US House. Andrew Jackson appointed him US Minister to Russia, a post he held for just a year and a half. He was then elected to the Senate before serving as Polk's Secretary of State. Under Pierce he served as the Minister to the United Kingdom, before his election as President. He was unable, however, to heal the growing rift at home over the issue of slavery. Indeed, he usually refused to deal with the issue, preferring to leave the issue with the South, seeing it as "their own question" (whether to allow it or not).
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