President Buchanan made the stand that no state had the right to secede the Union. Even though this was the case, the federal government did not have the authority to stop a state from doing so.
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James Buchanan was the current president, the president elect was Abraham Lincoln. Jefferson Davis later became president of the confederacy.
South Carolina the first southern state to secede on December 20, 1860, and James Buchanan was President, and Abraham Lincoln was the President elect.
Abraham Lincoln (Correction) No, it was still Buchanan. South Carolina seceded immediately they heard that Lincoln had won the election. But he was not inaugurated until March.
Buchanan was still in the chair when South Carolina seceded. But Lincoln had been inaugurated by the time the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter.
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No, when the first states seceded, both President Buchanan and President-Elect Lincoln announced that they could not legally do that.
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