How much do you know about President Martin Van Buren? Chances are, not much. The eighth president of the United States, who served from 1837 - 1841, does not usually get Mount Rushmore-level ...

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

In 1836, Vice President Martin Van Buren won the presidential election – a feat no sitting VP was able to repeat until George H.W. Bush in 1988.

I do not regret that your correspondent has directed the public attention to the fact of Mr. FLAGG's absence and my own at the funeral obsequies of Ex-President VAN BUREN.

According to James Bradley in “Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician”—an engaging and careful work of scholarship—the eighth president “built and designed the party system that ...

KINDERHOOK, N.Y. -- New York Army National Guard Maj. Gen. Michel Natali commemorated the 241st birthday of President Martin Van Buren on Tuesday, December 5, by laying a wreath from the White ...

His wife, Hannah Hoes Van Buren, like her husband a Kinderhook native, died in 1819 in Albany. But former first lady Dolley Madison introduced Van Buren's oldest son, Abraham, to her cousin ...

How much do you know about President Martin Van Buren? Chances are, not much. The eighth president of the United States, who served from 1837 - 1841, does not usually get Mount Rushmore-level ...