11. JAMES K. POLK (1845-1849)
During his term, Polk secretly purchased a number of enslaved children for his Mississippi cotton plantation.
12. ZACHARY TAYLOR (1849-1850)
"Old Rough and Ready" never voted in an election prior to being put on the ballot himself.
13. MILLARD FILLMORE (1850-1853)
He was the last Whig president; the party imploded after he left office.
14. FRANKLIN PIERCE (1853-1857)
The only [president from New Hampshire also attended college in New England -- Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
15. JAMES BUCHANAN (1857-1861)
In 1853, while serving as minister to Great Britain, he helped draft the 1854 Ostend Manifesto, which advocated for an American invasion of Cuba.
--CootPres
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