You have had a president named Martin Van Buren??? I had absolutely no idea!
And I'm dying to know why that's so surprising
I don't really know myself why I was so surprised. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Van Buren doesn't sound like an Anglo-Saxon name. I guess I believed that Barack Obama was the first American President ever who did not have an Anglo-Saxon name. Was Van Buren of Dutch descent?
Then again, I guess that when you think about it, Roosevelt doesn't sound all that Anglo-Saxon either.
Ann
