James K. Polk ... was a polarizing figure. When Van Buren's position against the annexation of Texas became known, ex-president ANdrew Jackson and others threw their support behind Polk, as ...

As president, however ... Van Buren's position on Texas threw the nomination to James Polk. Van Buren ran for a fourth time in 1848 as a Free Soil candidate and finished third.

Donald Trump took oath today as the 47th US President at the US Capitol Rotunda, marking his second term as head of the state.

Republican James Monroe had run unopposed in ... s personal appeal to win that year’s election; Van Buren became Jackson’s vice president, and the Democrats dominated politics until 1860.

D.C. As both coauthor of the Van Buren Papers, an effort to catalog and digitize the former president’s writings, and a former political reporter for The Village Voice, James Bradley knows ...