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James Buchanan1791–1868

2009· book-chapter· en· W4408597662 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistory of Science and Natural History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHistoryPhilosophy

Abstract

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Born in 1791, James Buchanan grew up in rural Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1809. After moving to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he studied law and gained admission to the bar in 1812. Two years later he was elected to the state assembly as a Federalist and then won election to the House of Representatives in 1820. During the 1820s he shifted from Federalist to Democratic ranks as an early supporter of Andrew Jackson. After declining to stand for reelection to Congress in 1830, he spent two years as minister to Russia (1832–1834) before returning to the United States to serve in the U.S. Senate for the next eleven years. He soon showed himself a staunch supporter of the South when it came to the defense of slavery’s constitutionality, as his January 1836 remarks to Congress suggest. As secretary of state during the administration of James Polk (1845–1849) he oversaw negotiations leading to the settlement of the Oregon question (an agreement over the boundary between the western United States and Canada) and advised the president during the Mexican-American War. He retired to private life in 1849, but he accepted an appointment as minister to England in 1853 during the Franklin Pierce administration. In June 1856 he beat out Pierce and Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas for the Democratic presidential nomination and defeated Republican John C. Frémont and Know Nothing Millard Fillmore in the fall contest.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.558
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0580.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.196
Teacher spread0.161 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2009
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