John Price Buchanan (1847–1930) was Governor of the U.S. State of Tennessee from 1891 to 1893. He was a native of Williamson County, Tennessee. A Confederate Army veteran, Buchanan moved to Rutherford County in 1878, where he operated a successful 325-acre (132 ha) farm. He was twice elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives, representing a district in his adopted home of Rutherford County. In 1889, he was elected president of the Tennessee Farmers' Alliance and Laborers' Union.

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  • John Price Buchanan (1847–1930) was Governor of the U.S. State of Tennessee from 1891 to 1893. He was a native of Williamson County, Tennessee. A Confederate Army veteran, Buchanan moved to Rutherford County in 1878, where he operated a successful 325-acre (132 ha) farm. He was twice elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives, representing a district in his adopted home of Rutherford County. In 1889, he was elected president of the Tennessee Farmers' Alliance and Laborers' Union. The Alliance formed a successful populist coalition for the 1890 elections, allowing Buchanan to capture the Tennessee Democratic Party nomination for governor. Although there was stiff opposition to Buchanan within Democratic Party ranks, he rallied enough to support to win the general election, becoming the state's 28th governor. Buchanan's term as governor was marred by a series of armed uprisings against the state's convict lease system, namely the Coal Creek War in Anderson County and a subsequent uprising in Grundy County, in which free coal miners attacked prison stockades after being replaced by convicts the state had leased out to the mining companies. Divided between his support for labor on the one hand and his obligation to enforce contracts the state had signed on the other, Buchanan struggled in his efforts to end the conflict, and was sometimes left bedridden with anxiety. Newspapers, coal miners, labor organizers, and mining companies alike vilified him, calling him "cowardly" and "ineffective. " The influence of the Farmers' Alliance quickly disintegrated, and the state's Democrats dropped Buchanan in favor of state Supreme Court chief justice Peter Turney in the 1892 election. Buchanan mounted a third party campaign for the general election, but captured only about 10% of the vote. After his defeat, Buchanan returned to farming and did not subsequently hold public office. The Confederate pension system was put in place during his tenure, as were state-supported secondary public schools.
  • John Price Buchanan war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und der 28. Gouverneur von Tennessee.
  • John Price Buchanan, född 24 oktober 1847 i Williamson County, Tennessee, död 14 maj 1930 i Murfreesboro, Tennessee, var en amerikansk politiker och jordbrukare. Han var guvernör i Tennessee 1891-1893. Buchanan deltog i amerikanska inbördeskriget i Amerikas konfedererade staters armé. Han gifte sig 1867 med Frances McGill. Paret fick åtta barn. En stark populistisk stämning med krav om bättre levnadsförhållanden på landsbygden i Tennessee hjälpte Buchanan till seger i 1890 års guvernörsval nominerad av jordbrukarlobbyn Farmers' Alliance. Som guvernör beordrade han sedan nationalgardet till kolgruvorna i delstatens östra del för att trycka ner gruvarbetarnas uppror. Orsaken till upproret var användningen av fångar som arbetskraft. Buchanan kandiderade till omval men förlorade mot demokraten Peter Turney. Buchanans grav finns på Evergreen Cemetery i Murfreesboro.
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  • John Price Buchanan (1847–1930) was Governor of the U.S. State of Tennessee from 1891 to 1893. He was a native of Williamson County, Tennessee. A Confederate Army veteran, Buchanan moved to Rutherford County in 1878, where he operated a successful 325-acre (132 ha) farm. He was twice elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives, representing a district in his adopted home of Rutherford County. In 1889, he was elected president of the Tennessee Farmers' Alliance and Laborers' Union.
  • John Price Buchanan war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und der 28. Gouverneur von Tennessee.
  • John Price Buchanan, född 24 oktober 1847 i Williamson County, Tennessee, död 14 maj 1930 i Murfreesboro, Tennessee, var en amerikansk politiker och jordbrukare. Han var guvernör i Tennessee 1891-1893. Buchanan deltog i amerikanska inbördeskriget i Amerikas konfedererade staters armé. Han gifte sig 1867 med Frances McGill. Paret fick åtta barn.
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  • John P. Buchanan
  • John P. Buchanan
  • John P. Buchanan
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