When Martin Van Buren arrived in Washington to be sworn ... but a revolutionary means of achieving and using power. With Andrew Jackson, he co-founded the Democratic Party in 1828, cannily banking ...

When Donald Trump made his inaugural speech at the US Capitol, he began by proclaiming to the audience of former presidents ...

but there is ample precedent for private citizens advising American presidents going back to Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, founding fathers of today’s Democratic Party. The term ...

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• The excavation work for the new United Presbyterian Church was started May 3, 1905, by Wood and Pendarvis contractors, the ...

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