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Martin Van Buren should never have been president.

An election-year satire favoring Free Soil candidate Martin Van Buren in the presidential contest.

MARTIN VAN BUREN was born.

President Van Buren is painted here with long sideburns, wavy hair, and a polite expression.

This election marked, among other things, the birth of a new Republican-led multiracial working-class coalition and the beginning of an upheaval in the.

Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Tim Alberta Bush, who was elected directly into the presidency since Martin Van Buren in the 19th century.

That’s not an insult.

America’s eighth chief executive belongs to a distinct phylum of presidents: those who possessed skills both extraordinary enough to elevate them to the White House and yet not quite aligned with what the nation actually needs from a commander in chief.

James Madison, for instance, may have been the greatest political theorist in the nation’s history, but that was not necessarily the right skill set for the man presiding over the War of 1812.

William Howard Taft’s talents were better suited for the Supreme Court (where he ended up post-presidency) than the Oval Office. Herbert Hoover had a technocratic genius for tasks like leading the humanitarian effort that kept Europe from starvation during World War I, but that also led him to overestimate his power to steer the country out of the Great Depression.

Van Buren’s case is perhaps more remarkable than any of thes