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The claim that Tyler had fathered multiple children with slaves was largely ignored by 19th-century historians. In addition to the Dunjees, the Brown family of Charles City County claims descent from Tyler by an enslaved concubine. Biographer Edward P. Crapol states that Tyler's white descendants are skeptical of claims by the Browns. However ...
James Buchanan Jr. was born into a Scottish-Irish family on April 23, 1791, in a log cabin on a farm called Stony Batter, near Cove Gap, Peters Township, in the Allegheny Mountains of southern Pennsylvania.
James Knox Polk (1795–1849) Samuel Polk. Jane Knox Yes: Yes: Robert Bruce Polk (great-grandfather) Lifford, Ireland → Province of Maryland (c. 1680) [10] [17] 12 Zachary Taylor (1784–1850) Richard Taylor. Sarah Dabney Strother Yes: James Taylor (2nd great-grandfather) England → Colony of Virginia [18] 13 Millard Fillmore (1800–1874 ...
Harriet Lane's family was from Franklin County, Pennsylvania. She was the youngest child of Elliott Tole Lane, a merchant, and Jane Ann Buchanan Lane. She lost her mother when she was nine; when her father's death two years later made her an orphan, she requested that her favorite uncle, James Buchanan, be appointed as her legal guardian.
Family of James Buchanan: March 4, 1857 — March 4, 1861 James Buchanan: The President never married or had children. The President's niece, Harriet Lane, acted as First Lady and served as hostess at White House functions. 16 Family of Abraham Lincoln: March 4, 1861 — April 15, 1865 Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln Robert Todd, Willie, and Tad
James Buchanan Henry (March 1, 1833 – February 17, 1915) [1] was a lawyer, writer, Private Secretary to the President of the United States, nephew and ward [2] of James Buchanan. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was the first man to hold this office after it became a paid government post. [ 5 ]
John Buchanan Floyd (June 1, 1806 – August 26, 1863) was an American politician who served as the 31st Governor of Virginia. Under president James Buchanan , he also served as the U.S. Secretary of War from 1857 to 1860.
Buchanan may have been born in Ireland [2]: 164 or in Pennsylvania. [3] His date of birth is disputed, with sources variously citing 1699, [4]: 50 1716, [5] and 1728. Several sources say he was the son of James Buchanan and Jane Sayers, and that the family lived for a time in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.