When Martin Van Buren arrived in Washington to be sworn ... defined how politics was practiced and power wielded in the United States.” We are living in the world Van Buren created.

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 ...

The American republic began in 1789, but it took a while for leaders and voters alike to organize themselves within a national framework, a process that would transform the nature of politics.