Well, it happens that his hometown was Kinderhook, New York, so in the election year 1840 his supporters began to call him ???Old Kinderhook,??? and O.K. clubs sprang up around the nation, most notably in New York City, to make the point that ???O.K. is o.k.??? He lost the election to a candidate with an even better slogan, ???Log cabin and hard cider??? William Henry Harrison (also ???Tippecanoe