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 ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Next up is the “Little Magician” - Martin Van Buren. Prior to becoming the eighth president Van Buren was a lawyer in New York who was elected to the State ...

Historian James Bradley has written a major new biography of local resident and the 8th president of the United States, Martin Van Buren. He was the first chief executive not born a British ...

This crisis - and his refusal to annex Texas - remain the legacy of President Martin Van Buren. His attempt for re-election in 1840 was doomed from the start.

Martin Van Buren did much to create the political party establishments we have today. Experts Barbara Bair and Mark Cheathem, along with Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza, examine his mark ...

Lindenwald, Martin Van Buren’s estate. | Acroterion, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0 The preferred annex for the Albany elite, Van Buren’s residence would often host dinner and cocktail ...

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.