When Martin Van Buren arrived in Washington to be sworn in as a senator in 1821, he told a friend he planned to “build up a party” for himself. It was an odd time to be party-mongering, and Van Buren ...
Martin Van Buren won the White House in 1836 by defeating William Henry Harrison to become the seventh President of the United States. But his one term as president was plagued by a banking crisis in ...
From the outset, James M. Bradley renounces any effort to rebuild Martin Van Buren’s pedestrian presidential reputation. A lackluster speaker, a vice president who never emerged out of Andrew ...
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