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James Buchanan

1791 - 1868

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James Buchanan Jr. ( bew-KAN-ən; April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. Buchanan also served as the secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represented Pennsylvania in both houses of the U.S. Congress. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Buchanan has received more than 11,051,614 page views. His biography is available in 125 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 124 in 2019). James Buchanan is the 1,084th most popular politician (up from 1,095th in 2019), the 317th most popular biography from United States (up from 322nd in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Politician.

James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States and is most famous for being the only president to never marry or have children.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.14

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James Buchanan ranks 1,084 out of 19,576. Before him are Itō Hirobumi, Władysław III of Poland, Magnus Maximus, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Claudius Gothicus, and Emperor Kōmei. After him are Camille Desmoulins, Grover Cleveland, Scorpion II, Robert I of France, Patrice de MacMahon, and Alexander of Greece.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, James Buchanan ranks 7. Before him are Michael Faraday, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, Théodore Géricault, and Carl Czerny. After him are Giacomo Meyerbeer, Franz Bopp, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Francesco Hayez, Johann Franz Encke, and Franz Grillparzer. Among people deceased in 1868, James Buchanan ranks 3. Before him are Gioachino Rossini, and Léon Foucault. After him are August Ferdinand Möbius, Ludwig I of Bavaria, Mongkut, August Schleicher, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Okita Sōji, William T. G. Morton, Mihailo Obrenović, and David Brewster.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Buchanan ranks 317 out of 20,380. Before him are Eli Whitney (1765), Rita Hayworth (1918), J. Edgar Hoover (1895), Nina Simone (1933), J. P. Morgan (1837), and Claude Shannon (1916). After him are Grover Cleveland (1837), Paul Samuelson (1915), George Westinghouse (1846), Henry Miller (1891), Ted Kaczynski (1942), and Angelina Jolie (1975).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, James Buchanan ranks 48. Before him are Robert F. Kennedy (1925), George Marshall (1880), William Howard Taft (1857), William Jennings Bryan (1860), Jerry Brown (1938), and Calvin Coolidge (1872). After him are Grover Cleveland (1837), Zachary Taylor (1784), Warren G. Harding (1865), Henry Clay (1777), William Henry Harrison (1773), and Jefferson Davis (1808).

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