US History Trivia: Which of these President's was rumored to have had a homosexual relationship with another man?

Our US History games have been flying like hot-cakes lately...so let's keep going with that, shall we?

Sex scandals and President's seem to go hand-in-hand (though our last two Presidents, W and Obama, haven't even had a hint of a sex scandal).  If power is truly an aphrodisiac, then that makes sense; power can make the President the most attractive man on the planet!

However, only once in history have substantial rumors circulated that a particular President was, in fact, having a sexual relationship with another man.   So, off of Pocket Trivia: US History - Which of these President's was rumored to have had a homosexual relationship with another man?  Was it Millard Fillmore, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson or James Buchanan?



This one's answer is James Buchanan.  Buchanan was the only US President to never marry.  The alleged (and I wanted to emphasize alleged) object of his affection was William King, a Senator from Alabama and Vice President under Pierce.  Buchanan and King lived together for fifteen years before Buchanan became President.  Some of Buchanan's letters expressed a certain degree of affection for King, and family members of both men destroyed their correspondence when they died.  Indeed, the closeness of their relationship lead some to speculate about their sexuality.

However, an alternative explanation is earlier in Buchanan's life; Buchanan was once engaged to an Ann Coleman, who broke off their engagement and died shortly thereafter.  In some of his letters, Buchanan said that he never recovered from that breakup.