Why Martin Van Buren Was In a “Seinfeld” Episode and 5 Other Things Nobody Knew ... His four years in the White House were marked by a financial recession so severe that his enemies called him ...

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 March 1837, President Van Buren, whose wife had died 18 years earlier, moved to the White House with his four bachelor sons. There was no first lady until Van Buren’s son Abraham married ...

-- 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 House at the eighth ...

Martin Van Buren allied himself with President Andrew Jackson, ... Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the 20th century — and one of the most controversial. ...

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, more than 150 years later.

In 1837, right before Van Buren became President, a cheesemaker from western New York sent to the White House a block of cheese so enormous (1,400 lbs.!) that it had to be kept in the foyer for ...