James Buchanan (Dickinson Chronicles)
Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “James Buchanan,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/b/ed_BuchananJ.html
James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the United States, was born near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania on April 23, 1791 to parents of Scotch-Irish descent. Buchanan attended the Mercersburg Academy until the fall of 1807, when he entered the junior class of Dickinson College.