Record Data
Source citation
“How Old is President Buchanan?,” San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, March 17, 1859, p. 1: 1.
Newspaper: Publication
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin
Newspaper: Headline
How Old is President Buchanan?
Newspaper: Page(s)
1
Newspaper: Column
1
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
HOW OLD IS PRESIDENT BUCHANAN? – It is remarkable that there is so much dispute about President Buchanan’s age. He acknowledges only sixty-eight, which is old enough for a bachelor. But his record carries him back further into the last century. He was a practicing attorney in Kentucky, in the years [1804?] and [1806?], as Senator Crittenden and Chancellor Bibb have stated, and well know. Even the record has been searched and found to corroborate the fact. A fair estimate makes him, however, only seventy-seven years old at the present time.
