Martin Van Buren, the 8th president of the United States. CBS News But in the facial hair department, Van Buren is second to no one, with some of the wildest facial hair to ever grace the White House.

Why Martin Van Buren Was In a “Seinfeld” Episode and 5 Other Things Nobody Knew About Our 8th President. Story by Liz McNeil • 2d. A new book by James M. Bradley sheds new light on the ...

Martin Van Buren: The Party-Building President Who Davy Crockett Described as Corseted, Aiding in His Defeat. Without a serious and thorough consideration of Van Buren’s entire career — before and ...

Martin Van Buren earned two nicknames during his lifetime: “the Little Magician”—he was a smooth politician—and “Old Kinderhook” from the town where he was born. “Old Kinderhook ...

Born in 1782, the son of a tavern keeper in Kinderhook, N.Y., Van Buren lacked the polished education or martial glory of the other presidents in the early republic.

Martin Van Buren in 1860. Library of Congress. 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.

As president, however, Van Buren maintained Jacksonian policies that magnified an economic downturn, leading to the Panic of 1837. "Martin Van Ruin" was not re-elected... Died: July 24, 1862, in ...

edited by John C. Fitzpatrick. (Annual Report of the American Historical Association, Volume II.) Government Printing Office, 1920. Large 8vo, 808 pp. $1.00. AN account of political movements in ...

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As president, however, Van Buren maintained Jacksonian policies that magnified an economic downturn, leading to the Panic of 1837. "Martin Van Ruin" was not re-elected... Died: July 24, 1862, in ...