[Larry Lucido]

Interesting facts about this guy. A Van Buren protégé. If some of the Van Buren Boys had his back, things could have gotten heated. Maybe Payne knew the “sign.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Tilden

Tilden was born into a wealthy family in New Lebanon, New York. Attracted to politics at a young age, he became a protégé of Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the United States.

[Verginius Rufus]

Martin Van Buren was the nominee of the Free Soil Party in 1848. He pulled enough votes away from Lewis Cass, the Democrat nominee, to tip the election to the Whig Party.

There was a county in Missouri which had been named for Van Buren (just south of Jackson County). In 1849 the local residents changed the name of their county to Cass County, which it remains.