A. He was the only President that we have ever had that was in the military, but who did not reach officer rank. Now, about 12 Presidents did not serve...but of the other like 32 who did, all were officers except Buchanan. His highest rank was as a mere private in the War of 1812.

B. While Buchanan came from Lancaster Pa. he was not Amish....as so many from that area are.

C. Except for maybe Franklin Pierce, he was the biggest drunk we have had as a President.

D. He is routinely lumped in with Pierce, Andrew Johnson and Warren G. Harding and Zachary Taylor as the worst Presidents we have ever had.

E. He was also, likely, our only gay President. From Biography.com:

Buchanan entered Congress in 1821, became a senator in 1834, and during this time struck up a friendship with Alabama Senator William Rufus King. The two lived together at Mrs. Ironsides’ Boarding House on Tenth and F Streets in Washington, D.C. This kind of roommate arrangement wasn’t uncommon for young congressional newcomers, but since Buchanan and King were both older and were independently wealthy, the fact that they roomed together for more than 10 years and remained inseparable the remainder of their lives incited vicious gossip. Andrew Jackson referred to King and Buchanan, respectively, as “Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy,” and a newspaper described the relationship as a “conspicuous intimacy.”

After King departed for France in 1844, Buchanan wrote to a friend, “I am now ‘solitary and alone,’ having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them.” Evidence suggests that after Buchanan won the 1856 presidential election, his niece, Harriet Lane, and King’s niece, Catherine Ellis,destroyed letters from their correspondence.