Pat Buchanan was born in Washington, D.C., one of nine children born to William Baldwin Buchanan and his wife Catherine Elizabeth Crum. (One of his sisters is former U.S. Treasurer Bay Buchanan.) Buchanan is married to Shelley Buchanan and is a practicing Roman Catholic. He is one-half German, one-quarter Scots Irish, and one-quarter Irish. He was educated in Roman Catholic Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. and Georgetown University, where he graduated with degrees in English and Philosophy in 1961. He earned a Master's Degree in Journalism from Columbia University in 1962.(1)Buchanan became an editorial writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat newspaper the same year he obtained his journalism degree, .Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American author, syndicated columnist, and television commentator. He ran in the 2000 on the Reform Party ticket. He has also twice unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president, in 1992 and 1996.He is also one of the founding editors and main contributors to The American Conservative magazine and a regular commentator on cable news station MSNBC and The McLaughlin Group news program.
