The thirteenth Vice President, serving underneath Franklin Pierce, William R. King had an unusually shut relationship with future president James Buchanan, with each males residing collectively and being known as the opposite’s “higher half”.
Maybe unsurprisingly, many fashionable historians consider that the 2 males – each lifelong bachelors – have been in actual fact lovers. And it’s not simply fashionable historians that thought that… so did many modern political rivals.
