When Martin Van Buren arrived in Washington to be sworn ... With Andrew Jackson, he co-founded the Democratic Party in 1828, cannily banking on Jackson’s personal appeal to win that year ...

Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore ... Van Buren reluctantly became the nominee of the Free Soil Party in 1848 after a decision by the Democratic Convention left his home state of New York ...

In 1836, Vice President Martin Van Buren won the ... he failed to get the Democratic nomination in 1844, then ran in 1848 as ...