How Did James Buchanan Become A President?

Being a president is one of the biggest honors you can get in the whole world. How could one mess up their chances, there are so many great and good presidents in U.S history but there are a couple bad ones like James Buchanan, the first and only Pennsylvania born president. How did he become president? James Buchanan was born April 23, 1791, at Cove Gap, Pennsylvania. His first political time was running for a seat in the U.S. House, which he won. Being young, he was a prominent leader of the Amalgamator party. . Buchanan's Federalist convictions were weak, and he switched parties after opposing a nativist Federalist bill. When Jackson got elected as president? Buchanan received an offer to be United States Ambassador to Russia. He mainly tried to trade and treaty with Russia for this job. His last job before becoming U.S. president was as the Secretary of State in the Polk administration, then he ran for office
president because he did nothing to stop the civil war during his presidency. The union was split apart because of the thought of slavery; the north was anti slavery, while the north was pro slavery. When the Republican Party was formed, that scared the South. If they won, the North would have control. Even when the South threatened to leave, he still did nothing about it. The 1860 election had four people running: John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and John C. Breckinridge. Lincoln won this by supporting only the north. The south was not happy by these results so South Carolina left the union after Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas all left before Lincoln was in office. Lincoln went into office in March so Buchan still has power to try to stop all of this but all he did was sit back all watch of this unfold leaving Lincoln with a split union.Leaving Lincoln with a tough job to fix the union. James Buchan is the worst president in U.S. history because he did nothing to stop the civil