Buchanan
Jimmy Carter was the only president from the deep South, If you think Texas is a Southern state, "W" Bush was the most recent. Before him was Clinton , from Arkansas, which was a slave state which seceded from the Union and might well be called a southern state.
Buchanan
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
They called it the confederate army but I don't know who was the president
george washington, of virginia-term1789-1797
South Carolina
South Carolina the first southern state to secede on December 20, 1860, and James Buchanan was President, and Abraham Lincoln was the President elect.
Seceded from the USA
Nero succeeded Claudius as emperor.
He became President because he was the vice-president when President Lincoln was killed. He became vice-president because of his strong stance in favor of the federal union and because he was from a slave state. He was the only Southern senator who did not resign when his state seceded.
The election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States in Nov. 1860.