Despite Van Buren's defeat, Johnson was instrumental in keeping Greene County in the Democratic column.

Polk worked for Jackson's policies as speaker, and Van Buren's when he succeeded Jackson in 1837 ; he appointed committees with Democratic chairs and majorities, including the New York radical C. C. Cambreleng as Chair of the Ways and Means Committee, although he maintained the facade of traditional bipartisanship.

As president, he did not want the United States to annex Texas, an act which John Tyler would achieve eight years after Van Buren's initial rejection.

Martin Van Buren's mother was Maria Van Alen ( née Hoes ) Van Buren ( 1747 – 1818 ).

In 1817 Van Buren's connection with so-called " machine politics " started.

In Van Buren's own words, " Without strong national political organizations, there would be nothing to moderate the prejudices between free and slaveholding states.

Martin Van Buren's tenure as New York governor is the second shortest on record.

No diplomatic questions of the first magnitude arose during Van Buren's service as secretary, but the settlement of long-standing claims against France was prepared and trade with the British West Indies colonies was opened.

The rejection, ostensibly attributed in large part to Van Buren's instructions to Louis McLane, the American minister to Britain, regarding the opening of the West Indies trade, in which reference had been made to the results of the election of 1828, was the work of Calhoun, the vice-president.

" No greater impetus than this could have been given to Van Buren's candidacy for the vice-presidency.

Van Buren's platform included supporting the expansion of the naval system.

Martin Van Buren's only competitors in the 1836 election were the Whigs, who ran several regional candidates in hopes of sending the election to the House of Representatives, where each state delegation would have one vote.

Van Buren's presidential victory represented a broader victory for Jackson and the party.

Ironically, although President Jackson was able to secure fellow Democrat Martin Van Buren's election in the 1836 presidential election, Ohio voted for the Whig Party candidate and Ohio resident William Henry Harrison, despite Jackson's efforts to gain Ohioan support during the Toledo War.

Harrison went on to victory in 1840, defeating Van Buren's re-election bid largely as a result of the Panic of 1837 and subsequent depression.

Van Buren's candidacy split the Democratic vote in New York, throwing that state to the Whigs ; at the same time, however, the Free Soilers probably cost the Whigs several Midwestern states.

During the campaign, Martin Van Buren's running mate Richard Mentor Johnson was accused of having lived with a black woman.

At the time of Calhoun's vote to end Van Buren's political career, it was not clear who the candidates of the Democrats would be in the election later that year.

The three leading candidates were William Henry Harrison, a war hero and the most successful of Van Buren's opponents in the 1836 election ; Winfield Scott, another general, a hero of the War of 1812 and active in skirmishes with the British in 1837 and 1838 ; and Henry Clay, the Whigs ' congressional leader and former Speaker of the House.

The 1835 Democratic National Convention, in Baltimore, in May 1835, was held under the two-thirds rule, largely to demonstrate Van Buren's wide popularity, and, although Van Buren himself was nominated unanimously, Johnson barely obtained the necessary two thirds of the vote.

Van Buren's location at the junction of Interstate 40, Interstate 540 ( Arkansas ), and the Arkansas / Oklahoma border yields surprisingly large tourism and hospitality industries.

When Asian Martial arts films started to draw crowds in European cinema houses, the producers of Spaghetti Westerns tried to hang on, this time not by adapting story-lines but rather by directly including Martial Arts fighting in the films, performed by Eastern actors – for example Chen Lee in My Name Is Shanghai Joe or Lo Lieh teaming up with Lee Van Cleef in The Stranger and the Gunfighter.

* Van Diemen's Land is the setting of Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan ( published 2002 ), which tells the story of a man who is transported to the island, and runs afoul of the local ( and rather insane ) authorities.

Among the entertainers was the internationally known concert pianist Van Cliburn, who appeared in a business suit, rather than his usual formal wear.

John Peter Van Ness Throop of Washington D. C. engraved a new die in 1841, which is also sometimes known as the " illegal seal " because only six arrows are shown rather than the required thirteen.

Supporting the latter stance, Van Hulle finds that the " characters " in Finnegans Wake are rather " archetypes or character amalgams, taking different shapes ", and Riquelme similarly refers to the book's cast of mutable characters as " protean ".

), Van der Linde also found that the actual text around which Forbes had built his entire theory ( Tithitattva of Raghunandana ) was actually from around AD 1500, rather than 3000 BC as claimed by Forbes.

In 1895 the town's name of Wirt was changed to Ellston so mail would be correctly received, rather than confused with the nearby northeasterly town of Van Wert.

Many of the others-led by Cornelis van de Heij, a farmer from Zeeland, and Father Godthard-left to form the village of Holland ( usually referred to locally as “ Hollandtown ”) rather than buying the remainder of Father Van den Broek ’ s land.

* Pazu and Sheeta, as portrayed by James Van Der Beek and Anna Paquin, are made to sound as several years older, placing them in their mid-teens, rather than their pre-teens.

Of the paintings, all but one originated from private rather than state German collections, including 56 paintings from the Otto Krebs collection, as well as the collection of Bernhard Koehler and paintings previously belonging to Otto Gerstenberg and his daughter Margarete Scharf, including world-famous Place de la Concorde by Degas, In the Garden by Renoir, White House at Night by Van Gogh, and some other collections.

NIck Butler wrote in a Sputnikmusic review: " This is Van Morrison's 6th Symphony ; like Beethoven's equivalent, it's fixated on the power of nature, but rather than merely sitting in awe, it finds spirituality and redemption in the most basic of things.

Van Vogt generally shortened non-Aristotelian logic to null-A in his description of logic systems incorporating three or more values, to represent relatively ' subjective ' conclusions from inductive logic, rather than relying strictly on the binary, deductive reasoning.

Van Rensselaer, an amiable politician in a hurry to launch his attack, simply chose to proceed with the attack from Lewiston only, rather than bring Smyth before a court-martial and possibly delay the start of the battle.

Other than a few interesting sides by jazz bands led by Clarence Williams and Cliff Jackson, most Van Dyke records were dance band numbers of the time, usually played by Grey Gull's studio band and featuring musicians such as Mike Mosiello, Andy Sannella and Charles Magnante, recorded with below average audio fidelity for the era, pressed in rather noisy and gritty shellac.

In 1819 Wentworth published the first book written by an Australian: A Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and Its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land, With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America, in which he advocated an elected assembly for New South Wales, trial by jury and settlement of Australia by free emigrants rather than convicts.

His most important work was the opera Rip Van Winkle, and was very popular at the time ; most influentially, Rip Van Winkle used an American folktale rather than European imitations.

Some scholars have even attributed the famous Deposition in the Prado ( Madrid ) to Campin rather than Van der Weyden.

Van Rompuy's first council meeting was an informal gathering in the Solvay Library in Leopold Park, rather than the more usual formal gathering in the Justus Lipsius building nearby.

Robert Van Voorst states that the scarcity of Jewish references to Jesus is not surprising, given that Jesus was not a prominent issue for the Jews during the first century, and after the devastation caused by the Siege of Jerusalem in the year 70, Jewish scholars were focusing on preserving Judaism itself, rather than paying much attention to Christianity.

The 1987 television movie A Special Friendship tells a fictionalized story of the friendship and pro-Union collaboration of Van Lew ( who is presented as a young, rather than middle-aged, woman in the film ) and her former slave Mary Bowser.

In 2006, Van Hollen Jr. opted out of the race to succeed the retiring Senator Paul Sarbanes, saying he would rather spend time with his family and help elect more Democrats to Congress.

The Marvel Adventures: The Avengers series ( set in its own continuity ) features Janet Van Dyne as Giant-Girl, showcasing her ability to grow rather than shrink, which she uses in combat.

Mike Sexton continues to provide commentary, though he is partnered with Denmark-based American commentator Jesse May rather than Vince Van Patten.