Martin Van Buren
As the eighth President of the United States of America, Martin Van Buren was a renowned attorney and astute politician. Together with a few of his colleagues, he founded the Democratic Party, which fundamentally altered how American politics had been conducted up to that point.
The first president of the United States of Dutch ancestry, Buren was also the first to be born a citizen of the United States, free from British colonization. The fact that he was the first president to be elected from New York adds to his prominence. Although he made every effort to manage the nation’s precarious economic situation, the Panic of 1837 affected his tenure.