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The president who ruled as a bachelor and never marries
James Buchanan was born on April 23, 1791, in Stony Batter, Pennsylvania… Buchanan presided over the dissolution of the Union. His faith that the legal system would resolve the slavery issue locked him into inaction. Most historians blame Buchanan for hastening the greatest crisis in American history… Died: June 1, 1868.
The Era
Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Felix Mendelssohn’s Wedding March, and Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species published (1857, 1858, 1859)
Queen Victoria and Buchanan exchange the first official transatlantic telegraph message (1858)
Radical abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on a federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry; he is apprehended and hanged (1859)
Construction of the Suez Canal begins (1859)
Domestic Policy
At his inauguration, Buchanan made his position clear: states should decide the legality of slavery within their borders. Two days later, the Supreme Court handed down a decision on a slave named Dred Scott, who argued that his residence in a free state made him a free man. The court disagreed, claiming that Scott was a piece of property without the rights of citizenship. One implication of the court’s decision was that slavery could not be excluded from any U.S. territories. Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 as an opponent of slavery’s expansion prompted South Carolina and six other states to secede and form the Confederacy while Buchanan was still in office, before Lincoln was even inaugurated. The lame duck Buchanan tried to appease the South to no avail.
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With his hands full at home, Buchanan’s foreign policy was limited to attempts to influence the Americas. Efforts to annex Cuba derailed because the island would surely have entered the Union as a slave state. An American named William Walker was arrested for establishing a dictatorship in Nicaragua but Walker claimed to be acting as Buchanan’s agent and was freed. American ships maneuvered Britain away from claims to American colonies and ground troops massed on Mexico’s northern border. All of these clumsy coercive activities increased international enmity towards the United States.
Presidential Politics
“I had hoped for the nomination in 1844, again in 1848, and even in 1852, but now I would hesitate to take it. Before many years the abolitionists will bring war upon this land. It may come during the next presidential term.” Buchanan’s work as a diplomat had kept him out of the country as the issue of slavery roiled the nation. His clean record and general support for states’ rights as a reflection of the will of the people allowed him to defeat the Republican John Frémont in the 1856 election. Pledged to serve only one term — and eager to vacate the White House before civil war became a reality — Buchanan’s antagonistic relationship with Stephen Douglas split the Democratic Party, allowing the Republican Abraham Lincoln to win handily in 1860.
One Musa Ceesay of Sukuta allegedly locked his mother in the house and set it on fire.
According to the information gathered, Musa came to the house (two rooms and a parlor). He shared the house with his mother with his girlfriend, and his mother asked the girl to leave.
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Musa Ceesay left the house afterward and went to buy petrol. Upon arriving at the compound, while his mother was in the house, he put a padlock on the door, poured petrol, set the house on fire, and ran away.
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The neighbors were able to rescue the mother before the fire spread throughout the house. I spoke to the mother while she was at the Sukuta police station. She informed me that she had sustained some burns and wounds.
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The Interior Ministry has declared Monday, August 5, 2024, a public holiday to commemorate Founders’ Day, which falls on Sunday, August 4, 2024.
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According to a statement issued by Interior Minister Henry Quartey on Wednesday, July 31, Sunday, August 4, is a statutory public holiday, but since it falls on a Sunday, President Akufo-Addo has declared the following day, Monday, August 5, as an additional public holiday.
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This declaration follows Section 2 of the Public Holidays and Commemorative Days Act, (Act 601).
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The public is hereby informed that Monday, August 5, should be observed as a public holiday throughout the country.
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US vice president, Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris is the Vice President of the United States. She always fights for the people – from her barrier-breaking time as District Attorney of San Francisco and Attorney General of California, to proudly serving as a United States Senator and the Vice President.
She was born on the 20th of October 1964.
She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.
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She is the 49th vice president of the United States of America and was sworn in to the office in 2021.
Harris served as the junior US senator from California from 2017 to 2021; to become the second African-American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
As a senator, Harris advocated for gun control laws, the DREAM Act, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, federal legalization of cannabis, as well as healthcare and taxation reform.
Harris sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, but withdrew from the race prior to the primaries. Biden selected her to be his running mate, and their ticket went on to defeat the then incumbent president and vice president, Donald Trump and Mike Pence, in the 2020 election.
Harris and Biden were inaugurated on January 20, 2021.
After Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election, Harris launched her own campaign for president with Biden’s endorsement.
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