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    Franklin Buchanan (September 17, 1800 – May 11, 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy who became the only full admiral in the Confederate Navy...
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  • United States Navy have been named Buchanan, in honor of Captain (USN), Admiral (CSN) Franklin Buchanan. USS Buchanan (DD-131), was a Wickes-class destroyer...
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    years later was named as President Franklin Pierce's minister to the United Kingdom. Beginning in 1844, Buchanan became a regular contender for the Democratic...
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    USS Buchanan (DD-131), named for Franklin Buchanan, was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Buchanan was transferred to the United Kingdom...
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    USS Buchanan (DD-484) was a Gleaves-class destroyer, the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Franklin Buchanan, who was an officer in...
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    care of her few wounded—which included her captain, Flag Officer Franklin Buchanan—and repair her minimal battle damage. Determined to complete the destruction...
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    Pennant of Admiral Franklin Buchanan, CSS Tennessee, at Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864 Digital recreation of Admiral Buchanan's pennant Admiral's...
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    Benjamin Franklin Buchanan (October 4, 1857 – February 21, 1932) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Virginia...
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    during the American Civil War. She served as the flagship of Admiral Franklin Buchanan (who would later be captured in the same ship), commander of the Mobile...
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  • Buchanan is a surname of Scottish origin (see Clan Buchanan). People with this surname include: Alick Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno (1898–1984), British...
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    of soldiers, attacked a smaller Confederate fleet led by Admiral Franklin Buchanan and three forts that guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay: Morgan, Gaines...
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    Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th president of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. A northern Democrat who believed...
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    the Battle of Hampton Roads, when her commanding officer, Captain Franklin Buchanan, was wounded in the March 8, 1862 attack on USS Cumberland and Congress...
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    12-pounder Howitzers. Virginia's commanding officer, Flag Officer Franklin Buchanan, arrived to take command only a few days before her first sortie;...
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    from 1962 to 1991. She was sunk as a target in 2000. Buchanan was named for Admiral Franklin Buchanan and was laid down by Todd-Pacific Shipbuilding at Seattle...
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  • Britain in the Alabama Claims. John Mercer Brooke Isaac Newton Brown Franklin Buchanan James Dunwoody Bulloch Catesby ap Roger Jones Matthew Fontaine Maury...
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  • Benjamin Franklin Buchanan (1857–1932), Virginia State Senate Hugh Buchanan (politician) (1823–1890), Georgia State Senate John Preston Buchanan (1888–1937)...
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    Captain Franklin Buchanan & Captain Josiah Tattnall...
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    officers with whom he had served in the Mexican–American War. Commander Franklin Buchanan was captain of Susquehanna and Joel Abbot was captain of Macedonian...
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    officers with whom he had served in the Mexican–American War. Commander Franklin Buchanan was captain of Susquehanna. Joel Abbot, Perry's second in command...
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    Abraham Lincoln. Buchanan was nominated by the Democratic Party at its 1856 convention, where he defeated both the incumbent President Franklin Pierce and Illinois...
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    came under hot fire from Fort LaPena. Cmdre. Perry ordered Commander Franklin Buchanan to disembark the surf boats and storm the fort. As the landing party...
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    Joseph Buchanan (/bjuːˈkænən/; born November 2, 1938) is an American paleoconservative author, political commentator, and politician. Buchanan was an...
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    which he expected to command; but that job instead went to Captain Franklin Buchanan. Forrest was then replaced as the Commandant of the Gosport Shipyard...
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    Buchanan's Birthplace State Park is an 18.5-acre (7.5 ha) Pennsylvania state park near Cove Gap in Peters Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The...
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  • Pennsylvania Frank Buchanan (Illinois politician) (1862–1930), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois Franklin Buchanan (1800–1874)...
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving...
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    Navy during the Second World War. She was originally US destroyer USS Buchanan, and was one of 50 obsolescent U.S. Navy destroyers transferred to the...
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  • skipper, Lt. Smith, rallies his men on board to do their duty. Captain Franklin Buchanan (Leon B. Stevens) of Virginia rallies his men similarly. Congress...
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    Senate, representing the state's 1st district. Buchanan succeeded his father, Benjamin Franklin Buchanan, who would go on to become Lieutenant Governor...
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