with varying degrees of enthusiasm … was calling himself a Republican,” writes James M. Bradley in Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician, a lively and illuminating new biography of ...

In 1836, Vice President Martin Van Buren won the presidential ... the populist Democrat, and Ronald Reagan, the ...

Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore ... The rift between Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican vote, allowing Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson to win the election. In 1936, Herbert Hoover ...