James Buchanan

Born	April 23, 1791
Birth Place	Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	None (Bachelor)
Occupation	Lawyer, Diplomat
Religion	Presbyterian
Died	June 1, 1868
Death Place	Lancaster, Pennsylvania

James Buchanan was served as the 15th President of the United States. A popular and knowledgeable state politician and very successful attorney prior to his presidency. Buchanan's efforts to preserve peace between the North and the South alienated both sides, and the Southern states confirmed their secession in the prologue to the American Civil War. Buchanan's view of record was that secession was illegal, but that leaving to war to stop it was also illegal. Buchanan, first and leading an attorney, was noted for his mantra, "I acknowledge no master but the law." By the time he left office, popular opinion had turned beside him, and the Democratic Party had divide in two. He had once aspired to a presidency that would grade in history with that of George Washington.

Franklin Pierce

Born	November 23, 1804
Birth Place	Hillsborough, New Hampshire
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Jane Appleton Pierce
Occupation	Lawyer
Religion	Episcopal
Died	October 8, 1869
Death Place	Concord, New Hampshire

Franklin Pierce was served as 14th President of the United States and he was American politician and lawyer. He has been the only one President from New Hampshire. He took part in the Mexican American War and became a brigadier general. He made several divisive decisions which were extensively criticized and earned him a reputation as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history. Pierce's esteem in the North declined sharply after he came out in support of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, repealing the Missouri Compromise and improved the debate over expanding slavery in the West. After down the Democratic nomination, Pierce continued his lifelong fight with alcoholism as his marriage to Jane Means Appleton Pierce fell apart.

Millard Fillmore

Born	January 7, 1800
Birth Place	Summerhill, New York
Political party	Anti-Masonic, Whig, American
Spouse(s)	Abigail Powers, Caroline Carmichael McIntosh
Occupation	Lawyer
Religion	Unitarian
Died	March 8, 1874
Death Place	Buffalo, New York

Millard Fillmore was served as the 13th President of the United States, and the final member of the Whig Party to hold that office. He became the second Vice President to guess the presidency after the death of a sitting president when he succeeded Zachary Taylor, who died of sensitive gastroenteritis. Fillmore was not at all elected president. After helping out Taylor's term, he failed to achieve the nomination of the Whigs for president in the 1852 presidential election, and, four years later, in the 1856 presidential election, he another time failed to win election as the Know Nothing Party and Whig candidate.

James K. Polk

Born	November 2, 1795
Birth Place	Pineville, North
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Sarah Childress Polk
Occupation	Lawyer, Farmer
Religion	Methodist
Died	June 15, 1849
Death Place	Nashville, Tennessee

James Knox Polk was served as the 11th President of the United States. A firm follower of Andrew Jackson, Polk was the last strong pre-Civil War president. Polk is renowned for his foreign policy successes. He is more famous for foremost the nation into the Mexican American War, in which the US was victorious. As president, Polk "extended the Union by settling claims to Texas and the Oregon Territory and by acquiring California and the Southwest". Polk signed the Walker Tariff that brings an era of nearly free trade to the country until 1861.