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TIL when future US President James Buchanan was a Senator, he bought his whiskey weekly in 10-gallon quantities from well-known whiskey merchant Jacob Baer in Washington, D.C. Buchanan considered Baer's whiskey to be "finer than the best Monongahela."

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