Martin Van Buren Created America's Partisan Political System. We're Still Recovering
Source: Smithsonian
Martin Van Buren in 1860. Library of Congress When Martin Van Buren arrived in Washington to be sworn in as a senator in 1821, he told a friend he planned to “build up a party” for himself. It was an odd time to be party-mongering, and Van Buren an unlikely party-monger. Republican James Monroe had run unopposed in the 1820 presidential election, and “every politician in Washington, with varying degrees of…
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