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.

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 ...

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, ... split the electoral college and leave the brokering of the presidency to the House of Representatives as it had in 1824.

(The house would also become a social hub for political operatives from the state capital, ... Lindenwald, Martin Van Buren’s estate. | Acroterion, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born in 1782, the son of a tavern keeper in Kinderhook, N.Y., Van Buren lacked the polished education or martial glory of the other presidents in the early republic.

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.

Style, politics and flair all came together in President Martin Van Buren's administration when his daughter-in-law Angelica Singleton Van Buren acted as White House hostess.

His four years in the White House were marked by a financial recession so severe that his enemies called him as “Martin Van Ruin.” But a new biography, Martin Van Buren: America’s First ...

Martin Van Buren allied himself with President Andrew Jackson, ... split the electoral college and leave the brokering of the presidency to the House of Representatives as it had in 1824.