Martin Van Buren did much to create the political party establishments we have today. Experts Barbara Bair and Mark Cheathem, along with Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza, examine his mark ...

the oldest political party in the world. Everything we associate with parties and campaigns — conventions, platforms, and yes, propaganda — started under Martin Van Buren.” Read on for a few ...

Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician by ... The United States took a little more than 40 years to develop its first true political party. The politician who invented “the Democracy ...

OK, Martin Van Buren was never initialized ... Bradley credits Van Buren as the principal architect of the political party system that broke down the stranglehold of rich, land-owning white ...

Martin Van Buren earned two nicknames during his lifetime: “the Little Magician”—he was a smooth politician—and “Old Kinderhook” from the town where he was born. “Old Kinderhook ...

According to James Bradley in “Martin Van Buren: America ... York state’s dominant political machine—the nucleus for what became the national Democratic Party. He served as a senator ...

In New York's Hudson Valley, in the village of Kinderhook, sits a lovely estate called Lindenwald, once home to Martin ... "Van Buren deserves credit for inventing our two-party system, which ...

From the time of Martin Van Buren, who basically invented the modern U.S. political party, Americans saw the party, not the individual candidate or the particular office, as the locus of political ...

When Martin ... and political debates,” Bradley says. “These practices are still very prevalent today.” The main difference? “Van Buren never could have conceived of a party system where ...