After serving in the House of Representatives, he negotiated a valuable commercial treaty as Andrew Jackson's foreign minister to Russia.
After serving in the House of Representatives, he negotiated a valuable commercial treaty as Andrew Jackson's foreign minister to Russia. He was appointed secretary of state under Polk and resolved the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain and was instrumental in starting the Mexcian War. Later, as minister to Britain, he infuriated the State Department and abolitionists by co-authoring a proposal to take Cuba for slave-owners known as the Ostend Manifesto. FTP, name this Pennsylvania native who, in 1856, triumphed over Millard Fillmore and John C. Frémont to become the 15th president of the United States.
After serving in the House of Representatives, he negotiated a valuable commercial treaty as Andrew Jackson's foreign minister to Russia.
James {Buchanan}