While ambassador to Great Britain, this future president told his niece “I am sorry, truly sorry, that you look upon your trip to England as the ‘future realization of a beautiful dream.’ Like all other dreams, you will be disappointed in the reality.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this bachelor president whose social affairs were managed by that 27-year-old niece, First Lady Harriet Lane.
ANSWER: James Buchanan Jr.
[10h] Buchanan’s inauguration was marred by this disease which broke out at the President’s lodgings. Over 400 people were sickened by this mysterious disease, which modern investigations attribute to a raw sewage line near the namesake building’s water supply.
ANSWER: National Hotel disease
[10m] John Quitman, a “Fire Eater” and one-time governor of this state, died from effects of National Hotel disease. Much of the land of this state was ceded by the Choctaw in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.
ANSWER: Mississippi [or MS]
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