Wilson Collection: James Buchanan and William Rufus King
(Print of James Buchanan, circa 1860,and portrait of William Rufus King. King image is a frontis portrait from Obituary Addresses on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. William R. King...Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, and in the Supreme Court of the United States, Eight and Ninth December, 1853; Washington: Printed by Robert Armstrong, 1854)
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James Buchanan and William Rufus King
President James Buchanan and former United States Vice-President William Rufus King were bachelors. They were partial to one another. In fact, they were inseparable. To King their relationship was a “communion.”[1] President Andrew Jackson dubbed King “Miss Nancy.”[2] But another contemporary, who referred to King as “Aunt Fancy,” also called him Buchanan’s “better half.”[3]
