Buchanan resigned from his Senate position in 1845 to fill the office offered to him by then-President James K. Polk for Secretary of State; serving from 1845 - 1849. 7. By 1852, Franklin and Marshall College in Buchanan's hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania named him as president of the Board of Trustees, maintaining this office until 1866.
Polypropylene is another term that anyone shopping for high school furniture has come across. It might sound imposing and technical, but polypropylene is just a soft plastic. The seats on school chairs are made of either hard or soft plastic. Hard plastic chairs are, as their name indicates, hard. They have no give or bend, but are incredibly strong.
We don't know who made the first chair. There are pictures on Greek urns of chairs dating back to about 600 BCE. Chairs were largely ceremonial for many years. For most people benches, chests and stools, and even rocks and logs were where they sat. We don't know who made the first chair. There are pictures on Greek urns of chairs dating back to about 600 BCE.