Quotes About Van Buren

No incumbent vice president had been elected to succeed an incumbent president since Martin Van Buren won in 1836.

The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

Grant Foreman, the leading authority on Indian removal, estimates that during confinement in the stockade or on the march westward four thousand Cherokees died. In December 1838, President Van Buren spoke to Congress: It affords sincere pleasure to apprise the Congress of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi. The measures authorized by Congress at its last session have had the happiest effects.

The Whigs nominated four regional candidates, hoping to send the election to the House of Representatives, but Van Buren prevailed, winning the presidency in the election of 1836.

Beginning with Van Buren himself, the heirs to Jackson saw the role of president as conciliator-in-chief, containing the elements that threatened the Union, often by concessions made to southern interests.

By the end of his first year in office, Jackson was permanently estranged from Calhoun and had settled on Van Buren as his successor