Family
Buchanan's ancestors were Scots-Irish. His family was among the earliest to settle in the Nashville area, and constructed Buchanan's Station south of the city in the 1780s. Buchanan's younger brother, James S. Buchanan, served as president of the University of Oklahoma in the 1920s.
Buchanan married Frances McGill in 1867. The had nine children: Rebecca, Robert, Maggie, Susie, Frances, Thomas, James, John, Jr., and Mary. Buchanan's grandson, James M. Buchanan (b. 1919), is a noted economist.
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“Every family has one passage of scripture they stumble over.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Our family talked a lot at table, and only two subjects were taboo: politics and personal troubles. The first was sternly avoided because Father ran a nonpartisan daily in a small town, with some success, and did not wish to express his own opinions in public, even when in private.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
“Family lore can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it on for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)