Editing Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (section)

===19th-century statesmen===
Lancaster County's native son [[James Buchanan]], a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]], was elected as the 15th President of the United States in 1856,<ref>[https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/history/presidents/jb15.html James Buchanan | The White House]. Whitehouse.gov (December 17, 2010; retrieved December 23, 2010.)</ref> the first Pennsylvania native to hold the presidency. His home [[Wheatland (Lancaster)|Wheatland]] is now operated as a house museum in Lancaster.<ref>[http://wheatland.org/ Welcome to LancasterHistory.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820165625/http://www.wheatland.org/ |date=August 20, 2006 }}. Wheatland.org. Retrieved December 23, 2010.</ref>

[[Thaddeus Stevens]], the noted [[Radical Republicans|Radical Republican]], represented Lancaster County in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1849 to 1853 and from 1859 until his death in 1868.<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000887 STEVENS, Thaddeus – Biographical Information]. Bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved December 23, 2010.</ref> Stevens left a $50,000 (~$1,000,000 in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) bequest to establish an orphanage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stevenstech.org/services/library/Pathfinder+Stevens.htm|title=Pathfinder on Thaddeus Stevens|date=December 10, 2004|access-date=October 9, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041210064027/http://www.stevenstech.org/services/library/Pathfinder%20Stevens.htm|archive-date=December 10, 2004}}</ref> This property eventually was developed as the state-owned [[Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology]]. Stevens and Buchanan were both buried in Lancaster.<ref>see [[:File:Thad Stevens grave.JPG]] and [[:File:Buchanan grave.JPG]]</ref>