James Buchanan

James B. is in the bottom of the spectrum in terms of ostentation of his burial site (along with Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Pierce). Interestingly, Franklin Pierce was the president just before Buchanan, and both were seriously over shadowed (in effectiveness as president and in the lavishness of their burials) by A. Lincoln who followed after.













Buchanan died as a multimillionaire, and could have afforded a much more lavish tomb.