Vice President of the United States, on the ticket with William Wirt. In 1834 he was defeated by James Buchanan in the election for United States Sena- tor. Buchanan and George M. Dallas, in 1810, later President and Vice President of the United States, respec- tively, had been among Ellmaker's

presidential elections of 1808 and 1812 substantiated this claim. The State maintained an unbrok- en loyalty to the national administration throughout this period. The first decade of the nineteenth century was marked by a suc- cession of Democratic Governors, United States Senators and Con- gressmen; and the

. Lincoln's nomination and election. Lancaster's first citizen, James Buchanan, occupied the White House from 1857 to 1861. In writing from Washington, Septem- ber 13, 1860, to William Carpenter, Esq., of Lancaster, relative to business matters, Mr. Buchanan addressed him privately as follows : "Some knave or

farmers' markets are unique. Within a twenty mile radius of the city, history offers to tourists the birthplace of 3 �Robert Fulton; Wheatland, the home of James Buchanan; the furnaces of the old Iron Masters of Pennsylvania, and Baron Stiegel's home; old Pequea and Donegal churches; the Cornwall mine

Democrats, now fearing the worst, tried to sal- vage the election by unleashing their big political gun, James Buchanan, the Friday night (October 9, 1829) prior to the election. At that time he made "a flourishing speech at a meeting in the Court House against the anti-masons and in favor [as the Anti