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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1634

Buchanan, James Fifteenth President of the United States (1791-1868, served 1857-61); his indecisiveness is often cited as a factor contributing to the outbreak of the US Civil War. Handsome, political content Autograph Letter Signed "James Buchanan" as US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1 page, 4to, Washington, April 2, 1840. He writes to Col. Richard Frazer, "I have presented the petition which you enclosed to me for the establishment of a Post office at Bearville; and the usual interrogatories will be sent immediately by the Postmaster General...I think all our prospects are brightening in regard to the Presidential election...Virginia is safe." Original blotting of Buchanan´s signature from folding otherwise quite Fine. Virginia´s vote was safely behind Buchanan´s candidate, fellow Democrat President Martin Van Buren. But the senator´s own Pennsylvania was not, nor was the president´s home state of New York, both of which went to the ultimate victor, Whig William Henry Harrison.

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