Martin Van Buren: The First Actual American President

The year after that, he ran for Congress and was elected over Daniel Watrous. Then was re-elected in 1845. In 1946 he resigned his seat partly because he was poor and because he wanted to create a law partnership with John Archer Elmore. And partly because he did not like Northern Democrats. He thought they were sacrificing their principles to economic interests.

After the elections of 1860s the Whigs party was left behind, and a new party was created to make a positive impact for the future. Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican president, and also he was one the best presidents the United States ever had. Since then, the United States has been ran by the sectional parties. Even thought it was not the first political party, the Republican Party was created to make a change, the Republican Party let humans be treated like humans. The Republican Party beat the Democrats and Whigs in making a movement against slavery, in my opinion is because is something that they were scared of, however the new sectional party helped them win the election of 1860, and then abolished slavery.

Subsequently, not being satisfied with the actions that were being taken by President Dwight David Eisenhower’’s administration, in the 1960’s presidential election, the American electorate elected President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a first-term Senator from Massachusetts over the incumbent Vice President of the United States of America under President Dwight David Eisenhower: Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon. A lecture from POSC 458 - the Vietnam Wars seems to indicate that Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon’’s poor performance in the first televised presidential debates could have been just as consequential if not more, than a rejection of President Dwight David Eisenhower’’s policies towards the Vietnam War by the voters as television

Martin Van Burn was born on December 5, 1782 in New York. In 1812, he was elected as a member of the New York senate, which helped to prove how adequate of a politician he was. After the election of 1824 and the corrupt bargain, Van Buren, William Crawford, Andrew Jackson, John Calhoun, and a number of other Democratic-Republicans banded together to form the Democratic Party. In 1828, Van Buren served as the New York Governor for a few months before Jackson was elected president and chose him as his Secretary of State. For Jackson 's second term Van Buren served as minister to Great Britain and was then elected president in 1837.

In the years 1829-1839, Jackson had decided to run for President. He thought that the “common man” should have more say in government, therefore, he was running as a Democratic. When he had run for President, he won with 178 electoral votes. Andrew Jackson was Democratic because he chose a “common man” to be in office and he vetoed the National Bank. There were a few reasons why Jackson was Democratic, but here is one.

John Adams was elected as the 2nd president of the United States in 1796 over Thomas Jefferson. This was the first time there had been a close race for the presidency, Washington had unanimously won the previous two before him. This turned out to be a bad decision by the American voters. John Adams didn’t succeed because he increased the amount of years it took to become a US citizen because he thought the nation 's civil unrest was caused by French immigrants, he put the United States in danger with the XYZ affair and the escalation of the Quasi-War, and he was opposed by the Vice President and many people in his own party. The US people saw these failings of their president and elected Thomas Jefferson in the 1800 election instead of reelecting

The first half of the eyewitness was before Thomas Jefferson becoming our third president and during his presidency. It talks about how Jefferson won the election between him and Aaron Burr including how he became famous or popular for his re-election. The reason on why he was won against Burr was because Burr was expecting Alexander Hamilton to choose him for the high office because he was a political enemy of Jefferson. However, Hamilton was against Burr more than Jefferson leading to Jefferson’s win. With this win Jefferson was able to become president.

In the spring of 1865, Lee abandoned Petersburg and then Richmond before finally surrendering near Appomattox. The next step for Grant was logically the Presidency–the only honor higher than the military honors he had already received. In 1868, the Grant was elected to the White House, thus beginning one of the most scandal-ridden administrations ever in American history. Grant unknowingly aided in a scheme to corner the gold market for two financiers, his cabinet members were caught in various graft attempts, and his Reconstruction policies failed miserably; however, despite this Grant was

Jackson then later became the first senate in the House of Representatives for the new state, Tennessee. He ran for president in the election of 1824, but lost to John Q. Adams. Jackson then won the next election, in 1828. During this time his wife, Rachel, died because of a stress related heart attack. Jackson’s military career started when he was at the age of thirteen.

Andrew Jackson’s victory in the presidential election against John Quincy Adams in 1828 would bring about the “common man era” in America. This was a time during the Jacksonian Democracy that promoted the common man, states’ rights and strict construction. For the first time in the United States history, a man born in humble circumstances (who did not have a college education) from west of the Appalachian Mountains, was now President. In the past, politicians had been elected because of their social status due to their family background, wealth and education. Jackson’s election as president marked an end to the wealthy politician’s steak.

After narrowly losing to John Quincy Adams in the contentious 1824 presidential election, Jackson returned four years later to win redemption, soundly defeating Adams and becoming the nation’s seventh president (1829-1837). As America’s political party system developed, Jackson became

The Electoral College had an interesting part in the election of 1824. By this time, the Federalist Party was no longer, which meant the United States was being dominated by the Democratic-Republicans, who led the one party system. There were four candidates running for President in the election of 1824. These candidates were Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, William Crawford and John Quincy Adams. Andrew Jackson was the winner according to the Electoral College, with ninety-nine votes.

TR’s decision to run was somewhat of a surprise because he would be campaigning directly against the very man he had selected to succeed him, “He was fearful that the people would blame him for foisting William Howard Taft on them; but he was not the betrayer, rather he was, as he saw it, the betrayed” (Chace 383). Roosevelt could not stand by and watch all the hard work he had done as president slowly unravel, as Taft himself writes in a letter addressed to Roosevelt, “I do not know that I have had harder luck than other presidents but I do know that thus far I have succeeded far less than have others. I have been conscientiously trying to carry out your policies, but my method for doing so has not worked smoothly”. Unable to ignore what he considered a cry for help, TR campaigned to be the Republican candidate, but was unsuccessful despite popular support and defeating Taft in almost every state, including his home state(Gould) Determined to not accept defeat, a group of former Republicans unhappy with the outcome of the Republican convention in Chicago nominated Roosevelt for the recently assembled Progressive party. While campaigning in Milwaukee, TR was shot in the chest, but he refused to go to the hospital until he had fully delivered his

Joshua Johnson was the first U.S consul to Great Britain and he was one of the most important people in the political world. After John Adams lost his second term election in 1800, he called his son to Prussia once again. In 1802, Quincy was elected to the legislature of Massachusetts legislature, then one year later, he was elected as the U.S senate. As well as his father, John Quincy was thought of as a member of the Federalist Party but in reality, he was never a particular “party” man, he had always tried seeing every party 's point of views. He became unpopular with the other Federalists due to his support on the Louisiana Purchase and President Thomas Jefferson 's Embargo Act.

He created the Corrupt Bargain that say John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay made a deal among each other and made it impossible for Jackson to win the election. In history I find Andrew Jackson was a interesting character because I do not know why he is on the $20 bill. His ego makes him more a tough contender in history since no one tends to have that authoritarian feeling. The entire essay I kept