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Americas Bachelor President and the First Lady
Americas Bachelor President and the First Lady Author:Milton Stern He was the only president from Pennsylvania. He was the last president to be born in the eighteenth century. He was the last of the Federalist Era presidents. He was the eighth in a line of successive one-term presidents. He was the last president to serve before the Civil War. Inaugurated in 1857, he was the last Democrat to serve as chief exec... more »utive until President Grover Cleveland took the oath of office in 1885. His niece would be the first woman to be referred to as First Lady. She would establish a style that would not be witnessed again until the Kennedy administration in the 1960s. He was our only bachelor president. His closest friend for nearly twenty years would be our only bachelor vice president. He may have been a homosexual. He was blamed for the Civil War. After his death, she would continue in public life, establishing a pediatric center, a national gallery, a boy?s school and a monument in his honor. He was the fifteenth president of the United States, and she was his official hostess and the envy of every woman in America. He was James Buchanan, and she was Harriet Lane.« less