To win the presidential election, Democrat Kamala Harris will have to overcome what was once called the “Van Buren jinx.” In ...

Jefferson easily won reelection in 1804, and it would be many years before another vice president took over the top job. Martin van Buren was the first vice president to be elected president after ...

When Martin Van Buren arrived in Washington to be sworn ... He proceeded swiftly from senator to secretary of state, vice president and president. And though he failed to win a second term ...

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 ...

Martin Van Buren allied himself with President Andrew Jackson, who in turn rewarded Van Buren with cabinet positions and the vice presidency. As president, however, Van Buren maintained Jacksonian ...

Fenderich 1840. Elected in 1837, Richard Mentor Johnson, vice president under Martin Van Buren, was infamous for leaving Washington, D.C., to tend bar at his tavern in Kentucky. Johnson was facing ...