Buchanan Administration - Education
Education
Buchanan studied at Old Stone Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, until 1807, when he was admitted to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He was a good student who excelled in problems of logic and metaphysics, but he was prone to getting into disciplinary trouble. He was suspended in his first year for "disorderly conduct." Buchanan pledged to change his ways, and he graduated in 1809. In December of that year he moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to study law under James Hopkins. A talented student of legal concepts, he was admitted to the bar in 1812.
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