Despite his administration’s successful push in outlawing bigamy and legalizing divorce, President Martin Van Buren ... in-chief, Van Buren purchased a country home, which he named Lindenwald ...

Martin Van Buren was born on Dec. 5 ... “It was a highly politicized environment at his home,” Bradley said. “I was literally born at the polls,” Van Buren allegedly said (though Bradley ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers ... and my own at the funeral obsequies of Ex-President VAN BUREN. The writer does both of us the justice to ascribe ...

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 ...

Though President Andrew Jackson gave the period its name, the most talented practitioner of the new art of popular politics was Jackson’s diminutive successor, Martin Van Buren. According to ...

Born: December 5, 1782, in Kinderhook, New York... Martin Van Buren allied himself with President Andrew Jackson, who in turn rewarded Van Buren with cabinet positions and the vice presidency.

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 ...

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 ...