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The 1856 presidential contest was a three-way affair involving Democrat James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, Republican John Fremont, the famed western explorer, and American or Know Nothing candidate Millard Fillmore, the former president. The exciting contest marked a new, more openly sectional era in American politics but resulted in victory for Buchanan, who aspired to forge a national consensus for compromise on the difficult issue of slavery. (By Matthew Pinsker)
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Anspach, F. R. The Sons of the Sires; A History of the Rise, Progress, and Destiny of the American Party, and its Probable Influence on the Next Presidential Election. To Which is Added a Review of the Letter of the Hon. Henry A. Wise, Against the Know-Nothings. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1855. |
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The Agitation of Slavery. Who Commenced! And Who Can End It!! Buchanan and Fillmore Compared. From the Record. Washington, DC: Union Office, 1856. | View Record |
The American Text Book, for the Campaign of 1856. Baltimore, MD: Bull & Tuttle, 1856. | View Record |
Auchampaugh, Philip G. “James Buchanan, the Conservatives’ Choice, 1856.; A Political Portrait.” Historian 7 (Spring 1945): 77-90. | View Record |
Carlson, Robert E. “Buchanan and Western Pennsylvania in 1856.” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 40 (1957): 45-57. | View Record |
Carroll, Anna Ella and James French. Who Shall be President?: An Appeal to the People. Boston: James French & Co., 1856. | View Record |
Choate, Rufus. The Old-Line Whigs for Buchanan! Letters of Rufus Choate and James B. Clay. 1856. | View Record |
Cluskey, M. W. Buchanan and Breckinridge: The Democratic Handbook. Washington, DC: R. A. Waters, 1856. | View Record |
Freehling, William W. The Road to Disunion. Vol. 2, Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. | View Record |
Gienapp, William E. The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. | View Record |
Holt, Michael F. The Political Crisis of the 1850s. New York: W W Norton & Company, 1983. | View Record |
Johnson, Kenneth R., ed. “A Southern Student Describes the Inauguration of President James Buchanan.” Alabama Historical Quarterly 31, no. 3-4 (1969): 237-240. | View Record |
Klein, Frederic S. “Election of Buchanan in 1856 is Commemorated at Lancaster; British Share in Celebration.” Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs Bulletin 24 (1956): 17-20, 22. | View Record |
Levin, Lewis C. The Union Safe!: The Contest Between Fillmore and Buchanan!: Fremont Crushed!. New York, 1856. | View Record |
Lynch, William O. "Indiana in the Buchanan-Douglas Contest of 1856." Indiana Magazine of History 30 (1934): 119-132. | View Record |
Montgomery, Horace. “Georgia’s Howell Cobb Stumps for James Buchanan in 1856.” Pennsylvania History 29 (1962): 40-52. | View Record |
Parker, John A. “How James Buchanan was Made President, and by Whom.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 13 (July 1905): 81-87. | View Record |
Tinelli, L. W. Fremont, Buchanan and Fillmore; or, The Parties Called to Order. New York: Livermore & Rudd, 1856. | View Record |