Best of the Worst

From the year 1837 to 1857, there was a string of less than average presidents. Minus James K. Polk, the best president of the group was the eighth president, Martin Van Buren. The reason Van Buren was a bad president was because he marched to the beat of his own drum too often. He never listened to his cabinet. An example of this is his refusing to move on acquiring either Texas or Canada even after Texas wanted to join the Union.

The largest problem of the Van Buren Administration was the Panic of 1837. I don’t believe this was his fault. The Panic started just two months after Van Buren’s inauguration. The president tried to call a special session five days after the panic started, but the U.S. House refused to pass the bill. This showed Van Buren was handcuffed when trying to solve the problem. Then he tried more solutions but all of them failed. The cause of the Panic of 1837 was Andrew Jackson. With Jackson