Prior to becoming the eighth president Van Buren was a lawyer in New York who was elected to the State Senate in 1813 and for a time he simultaneously served as the state’s Attorney General.

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.

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.

Burial Place Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, New York Vice President Richard M. Johnson First Lady Hannah Van Buren Presidential Library/Key Site Van Buren National Historic Site, Kinderhook, New ...

‘Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician’ By James M. Bradley Oxford University Press, 632 Pages From the outset, James M. Bradley renounces any effort to rebuild Martin Van Buren’s pedestrian ...

Martin Van Buren, ninth governor of New York, eighth vice president of the United States, and eighth president of the United States.

Mr. VAN BUREN is now 79 years of age. It is twenty-four years since he assumed the duties of President of the United States.

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.

Martin Van Buren Created America’s Partisan Political System. We’re Still Recovering The eighth president of the United States, the so-called little magician, saw political parties as the key ...

As Vice President Kamala Harris spent the past few months campaigning, some wondered if she’d be able to overcome the curse of the incumbent VP.

For four years, Van Buren served as Jackson’s Vice-President and was seen as his natural successor. In 1836, the “Little Magician” ran for the high office himself.