people gave him to send on the train.5 It was a stamp of approval! Others say a political organization invented the word when Martin Van Buren was running for President in 1840. They called their group, the O.K. Club, taken from the town where he was born, Old Kinderhook, New York. Experts do not agree with its origin, but they do agree that the word is purely American and has spread to almost every country on Earth.
