2-365-459 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, c1860 (1955). Buchanan (1791-1868) was president from 1857 until 1861. His presidency saw the issue of slavery dominate politics, culminating in the secession of six southern slave-owning states. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.