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28 Apr 2009, 8:00 am
Bush, or Martin Van Buren. [read post]
15 Jul 2016, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
 The Library of Congress has placed on-line 6,000 items from the Martin Van Buren Papers and released a new on-line version of the Federal Register for the years 1936-1993, together with a Beginner's Guide. [read post]
26 Oct 2014, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Among the most significant of these latter patterns are the facts that: every antebellum president took political considerations into account in making nominations; all antebellum presidents, with the exception of William Henry Harrison, had most of their judicial nominations confirmed by the Senate; and three antebellum presidents — George Washington, Martin Van Buren, and James Polk — enjoyed 100% of their judicial nominations confirmed by the Senate. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 9:09 am
Among the most significant of these latter patterns are the facts that: every antebellum president took political considerations into account in making nominations; all antebellum presidents, with the exception of William Henry Harrison, had most of their judicial nominations confirmed by the Senate; and three antebellum presidents — George Washington, Martin Van Buren, and James Polk — enjoyed 100% of their judicial nominations confirmed by the Senate. [read post]
8 Apr 2022, 4:30 am by Michael C. Dorf
And before the modern cloture rule emerged, there actually was one major historical example of a VP casting a decisive tie-breaking confirmation vote when VP Calhoun broke the tie by voting against the confirmation of Martin Van Buren as Ambassador to Great Britain. [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 7:11 am by Alfred Brophy
  Not quite the best picture, but they were having a sidewalk sale that day and I was sort of pushed out into traffic.Be all of that as it may, Manly's address is really interesting for this reason: a major part of it is an attack on Indian removal and, thus, on Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 2:06 pm
He cast his first presidential vote for Democrat Martin Van Buren in 1836 because Trumbull and Van Buren were both against “big government. [read post]
28 Jul 2007, 4:40 pm
His hand picked successor, Martin Van Buren, had been elected 4 months earlier and was gearing up to begin his own term in office. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 8:41 am by Gerard Magliocca
The only time that a presidential candidate won a majority of the electoral vote and his vice-president did not was in 1836, when Martin Van Buren’s running mate, Richard Johnson (depicted right) came up short. [read post]
15 Jun 2020, 4:00 am by Betty Lupinacci
” Or inspire them with the story of a 12-yer-old girl who traced the lineage of every president (except poor Martin Van Buren) back to King John. [read post]
20 Feb 2020, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
Kho] What Martin Van Buren had to say in his memoirs concerning James Madison, Bushrod Washington, and Chancellor James Kent [Gerard Magliocca, Prawfsblawg] Is the Ninth the most overturned circuit? [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
John LangfordThe Constitution’s Appointments Clause provides that the President “shall nominate, and by and with Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint  . . . [read post]
27 Jul 2017, 2:25 am by NCC Staff
Of the 10 secretaries who served between 1790 and 1831, five were later elected President (Jefferson, Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren) and another, John Marshall, served as Chief Justice of the United States. [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 12:06 pm by Jim Martin
As there was at this time no method for filling a vacancy in the office of the vice president, the country was without a vice president until Martin Van Buren was sworn in on March 4, 1833. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 7:46 am by Andrew Weber
For instance, Senator Grundy was appointed Attorney General of the United States by President Martin Van Buren in 1838 and Senator Marcy was Governor of New York 1833-1839. [read post]