Prior to the 1880s, the federal civil service of the United States was entirely staffed by at-will employees who were supporters of the president and the political party that won the most recent ...

This conferred enormous powers to presidents and their political party. In the years following ... Some supporters of this system like President Martin Van Buren, who served from 1837 to 1841, ...

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are working to dramatically reduce the size of the federal civil service. They have already laid off numerous government employees who work on issues ranging ...

Congress and voters responded by forbidding future presidents from being elected more than twice. President Donald Trump ...

He had been governor of Tennessee, a hopeful for vice president in 1840, and the apparent choice to balance presumptive Democratic nominee Martin Van Buren of New York in 1844. When Van Buren ...

Yet by the time Jackson endorsed his own successor, Martin Van Buren ... third-party campaign and lost, pilloried by critics for his broken third-term promise. One scathing political cartoon ...