medal, van Buren, Democracy
name: label: associated person
content: Van Buren, Martin
notes: label: Description
content: When Martin Van Buren ran for President as a Democrat, in 1836, he relied on his role as founder of the Democratic party, back in 1827, and stressed his connections to the previous Democratic president, Andrew Jackson. This medal’s invocation of “Democracy and Our Country” makes that argument, at a time when “Democracy” often meant the Democratic Party, not the entire political system. The medal also works to connect that party to a nation dominated by farmers, through the depiction of agricultural tools.
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content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Ralph E Becker Collection of Political Americana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.227739.1836.B02
label: catalog number
content: 227739.1836.B02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)