He even ran for a different party in the 1848. It didn’t go well and Van Buren finally retired from politics after the election. Van Buren's Early Years. By then, Van Buren had risen quickly through the ranks of New York’s Democratic-Republican Party, and he was serving as the state’s attorney general. Martin Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782, in the predominantly Dutch community of Kinderhook, New York. But the Whig Party had opposed Jackson, so they didn’t want Van Buren to be the next president. He won the election with 764,198 popular votes, 50.9 percent of the total, and 170 electoral votes. But in 1840, the opposition party used his own techniques against him. This book is narrowly focused on the creation of the Democratic Party and Van Buren's role in it. That leopard has never changed its spots. In the United States presidential election of 1836, Martin Van Buren defeated four candidates fielded by the Whig Party. The Democratic-Republican Party split over the choice of a successor to President James Monroe.The faction that supported many of the old Jeffersonian principles, led by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, became the modern Democratic Party.

But the Whig Party had opposed Jackson, so they didn’t want Van Buren to be the next president. That leopard has never changed its spots.

Martin Van Buren’s name may not be familiar to the average present-day citizen, but as the eighth president of the United States, he is an accomplished figure in American history.

His son John Van Buren had helped form the Free Soil Party and Martin was its first presidential candidate. His father, Abraham, was a tavern keeper and farmer of modest means; his mother, Maria Goes Van Alen, was a widow with two sons from her first marriage. That leopard has never changed its spots. 4

Martin Van Buren was a skilled, political innovator. Van Buren eventually settled down in …

Martin Van Buren (/ v æ n ˈ b j ʊər ən / van BEWR-ən; born Maarten Van Buren; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was an American statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. His shrewd dealings laid the foundations for the Democratic Party and the modern political machine. Though the party polled only 10 percent of the popular vote in the presidential election that year, it weakened the regular Democratic candidate in New York and contributed to the election of the Whig candidate Gen. Zachary Taylor as president. All that has happened today is that the media has reverted to form and looks exactly like the instruments Martin Van Buren designed to preserve slavery.