a friend of the president. Jackson, perhaps because his wife Rachel had died just before he took office, sided with Peggy Eaton. At one Cabinet meeting he went so far to say, “She is as chaste as a ...

vice president under Jackson, and president of the United States? Such a thing is not uncommon now, but it was unthinkable then — until Van Buren. “Politics in the early 1800s was a ...

Van Buren worked his way up from New York state senator to governor and U.S. senator, before President Andrew Jackson named ...

Martin Van Buren entered the White House on the coattails of his illustrious predecessor, Andrew Jackson, making him the second vice president to succeed his immediate forerunner. Challenges: Three ...

Due to their strength, Jackson exercised his veto power more than all his predecessors combined, and he was the first president to use the pocket ... could give his hand-picked successor, Martin Van ...

Although Jackson won more electoral and popular votes than any of his opponents in 1824, his lack of a majority gave the House of Representatives the power to choose a president. Frustrated by ...