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 ...

Andrew Jackson's successor, Martin Van Buren (1782–1862) was also at various times Jackson's secretary of state, ambassador to the Court of St. James's and vice president.

In 1839, sultan Abd al-Rahman ibn Hisham of Morocco sent a pair of lions to the US consulate in Tangier as a present for President Martin Van Buren. The gift was impossible to refuse and was ...