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{INSERTKEYS}[5] James Buchanan Sr., was an Ulster-Scot from just. But Clarke said he wouldn't object if a volunteer offered a personal opinion that Buchanan was gay, if asked by a visitor. It's ridiculous. But Loewen said those flaws shouldn't discourage members of the LGBT community from acknowledging Buchanan's status as a gay man.

But we also have to acknowledge the failures. And since I haven't seen any evidence that he was heterosexual, I don't believe he was bisexual. Loewen said contemporary records indicate the two men were inseparable, and wags would refer to them as "the Siamese twins.

Pennsylvania's James Buchanan, who lived from to , was the 15th president of the United States and is generally regarded as one of the worst to ever hold that office. In the late s, Loewen visited Wheatland, the mansion in Lancaster, Pa.

Loewen said he asked a staffer at Wheatland if Buchanan was gay, and the reply was: "He most definitely was not. [4] Buchanan was the second of eleven children with six sisters and four brothers, and the eldest son of James Buchanan Sr. and his wife Elizabeth Speer.

For my money, he's the best poet in the history of the country. However, Loewen scoffed at the staffer's suggestion that the brief engagement to Coleman proved Buchanan was heterosexual. James Buchanan, the only president to remain a bachelor his entire life, may have also been the first gay president in U.S.

history. Worse still, moving Buchanan and King from friends to lovers blocks the way for a person today to assume the proper mantle of becoming our first gay president. On his watch, the. James Buchanan was the only U.S. president who remained a bachelor throughout his life.

Buchanan was part of the pro-slavery wing of the Democratic Party, and corruption plagued his administration. For example, when prominent Democrat Aaron Brown wrote to Mrs. James K. Polk, he referred to King as Buchanan's "better half," "his wife" and "Aunt Fancy … rigged out in her best clothes.

Wheatland also has about 45 volunteer tour guides, and to Clarke's knowledge, none of the guides is openly gay. Loewen is the author of the acclaimed book "Lies Across America," which examines how historical sites inaccurately portray figures and events in America's past.

Patrick Clarke, the director of Wheatland, said the staff now takes a neutral stance on Buchanan's sexual preference. And how is that believable? Buchanan had a close relationship with William Rufus De Vane King, sparking speculation about his sexuality.

Buchanan, a Democrat from Lancaster County, Pa. He served as president from , during the tumultuous years that lead up to the Civil War. Historian James W. Loewen has done extensive research into Buchanan's personal life, and he's convinced Buchanan was gay.

Historian James Loewen suggests Buchanan's possible gay identity is not widely discussed today. If we only admit that really great people are gay, what kind of history is that? James Buchanan Jr. was born into a Scotch-Irish family on April 23, , in a log cabin on a farm called Stony Batter, near Cove Gap in the Allegheny Mountains of southern Pennsylvania.

The tours focus mainly on the mansion's decor and activities that took place there during the later years of Buchanan's life, he added. More than years before America elected its first black president, it most likely had its first gay president: James Buchanan.

Loewen said Buchanan showed little interest in Coleman, appeared more interested in her fortune, and possibly contributed to her suicide due to his emotional detachment. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.{/INSERTKEYS}