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Its lyrics sang the praises of Whig candidates William Henry Harrison (the "hero of Tippecanoe") and John Tyler, while denigrating incumbent Democrat Martin Van Buren. Folk music critic Irwin Silber wrote that the song "firmly established the power of singing as a campaign device" in the United States, and that this and the other songs of 1840 ...
Martin Van Buren was sworn in as the eighth President of the United States on March 4, 1837. He retained much of Jackson's cabinet and lower-level appointees, as he hoped that the retention of Jackson's appointees would stop Whig momentum in the South and restore confidence in the Democrats as a party of sectional unity. [152]
Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (1837–41) Silas Wright, Governor of New York (1846–47) and U.S. Senator (1833–44) Hunkers
'Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician' by James M. Bradley “Van Buren was most responsible for making the mass party the primary form of political expression in America," says Bradley ...
Martin Van Buren summons spirits to divine the Democratic or Loco Foco prospects for election in 1844. Van Buren realized that accommodating slavery expansionists in the South would open the Northern Democrats to charges of appeasement to the Slave power from the strongly anti-annexation Northern Whigs and some Democrats. [53]
Van Buren won ten percent of the national popular vote and fifteen percent of the popular vote in the Northern states; he received a popular vote total five times greater than that of Birney's 1844 candidacy. [42] Van Buren was the first third-party candidate in U.S. history to win at least ten percent of the national popular vote. [43]
Once again snubbing Martin Van Buren, the Democratic National Convention nominated Lewis Cass of Michigan on a platform endorsing popular sovereignty. Clay was again a candidate for the Whigs, but the convention passed him over in favor of General Zachary Taylor. Though publicly neutral on the slavery question, Taylor was a slaveholder and a ...
Martin Van Buren Bates began a tremendous growth spurt about the age of 6 or 7. By the time he was 12, he was more than 6 feet tall and 200 pounds. In time he would be 7'9" and weigh approximately ...