[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.

[Larry Lucido]

Lewis Cass? He was the second governor of Michigan and Secretary of War under Andrew Jackson, and reportedly meaner than Martin Van Buren!