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The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracy The first "professional politician" to become president, the slick and dandyish Martin Van Buren ...
Martin Van Buren won the White House in 1836 by defeating William Henry Harrison to become the seventh President of the United States. But his one term as president was plagued by a banking crisis in ...
In New York's Hudson Valley, in the village of Kinderhook, sits a lovely estate called Lindenwald, once home to Martin Van Buren. And if you don't know who that is, you're in good company! Van Buren ...
When Martin Van Buren arrived in Washington to be sworn in as a senator in 1821, he told a friend he planned to “build up a party” for himself. It was an odd time to be party-mongering, and Van Buren ...
In the latest volume of Arthur Schlesinger's American Presidents series, Widmer (Young America) paints a brief but elegant portrait of our eighth president, who, Widmer says, created the modern ...
edited by John C. Fitzpatrick. (Annual Report of the American Historical Association, Volume II.) Government Printing Office, 1920. Large 8vo, 808 pp. $1.00. AN account of political movements in the ...
Born: December 5, 1782, in Kinderhook, New York... Martin Van Buren allied himself with President Andrew Jackson, who in turn rewarded Van Buren with cabinet positions and the vice presidency. As ...
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