Name James Buchanan | Role Jurist | |
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Died August 23, 1876, Balti, Maryland, United States | ||
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James M. Buchanan (May 1803 – August 23, 1876) was a Baltimore, Maryland jurist and diplomat.
Contents
- A conversation with james m buchanan 1 2
- James m buchanan on economists and the great recession
- Biography
- References
James m buchanan on economists and the great recession
Biography
James Madison Buchanan was born in Pikesville, Maryland in May 1803. (Some sources indicate 1802.) He attended Baltimore College and St. Mary's College of Baltimore, studied law with Hugh Davey Evans and Walter Dorsey, and became an attorney in Baltimore.
A Democratic-Republican, Buchanan served in the Maryland House of Delegates in 1826 & 1829. Later a Democrat, he campaigned for Andrew Jackson for President in 1824 and 1828, and attended numerous local and state party conventions as a Delegate. In the 1830s he joined the militia as an aide-de-camp to the Commander of the Baltimore City Guards. Buchanan became a Whig in the 1830s, but later returned to the Democratic party.
Buchanan served as Baltimore's Postmaster during the administration of James K. Polk, and he was President of Maryland's 1850-1851 constitutional convention. In 1852 he was appointed as one of Maryland's Commissioners for resolving the state's boundary with Pennsylvania, and in 1855 he was appointed a Judge on Maryland's Circuit Court.
In 1856 Buchanan was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and supported James Buchanan for President. In 1858 President Buchanan nominated James M. Buchanan as Minister to Denmark, and he served until 1861.
After spending time touring Europe, Buchanan returned to Baltimore and practiced law until his death.
He died in Baltimore on August 23, 1876, and was buried in Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery. (Some sources indicate that he died in Berkeley, West Virginia.)