Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1792-July 24, 1862) was, like Andrew Jackson, one of the cheif founders of the original Democratic Party. The Democratic Party of back then is similar to the Republican Party of today, in that it was socially conservative. He was fat, bald, and ignorant, and how he lived to be almost 70 in his era, I'll never know. I mean, McDonalds didn't even exist back then for Christ's sake! How did he get so fat? Must have been the British....always obsessed with stoutness back then...

Ahem, anyway, he was like his predecessor Andrew Jackson, and future presidents James K. Polk, Franklin Peirce, Warren G. Harding, and George W. Bush in that he was racism against all non-white buissness lords. He supported the Panic of 1837 because he was too rich to be affected by it, and he supported the "state's right" of Slavery, scoring high amongst The South. Despite his stoutness, he was not of British decent, even though he would have to gotten involved with them for him to gain so much weight.