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  martin van buren - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York, 20 miles south of Albany, the state capital.
Van Buren was not an orator, but his more important speeches show careful preparation and his opinions carried weight; and the oft-repeated charge that he refrained from declaring himself on crucial questions is hardly borne out by an examination of his senatorial career.
In 1828 Van Buren was elected governor of New York for the term beginning on the 1st of January 1829, and resigned his seat in the Senate.
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 Hannah Van Buren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hannah Van Buren (nee Hoes) (8 March 1783 - February 5, 1819) was the wife of the 8th United States President Martin Van Buren from 1807 until her death.
Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, New York and died in Albany, New York.
Hannah Van Buren was taught in a local Kinderhook school by master Vrouw Lange; Dutch was her first language.
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 Martin Van Buren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York, approximately twenty-five miles south of Albany, the state capital, as the third of five children.
Van Buren was educated at the common schools and at Kinderhook Academy.
Van Buren's attitude towards slavery at the moment was shown by his vote, in January 1820, for a resolution opposing the admission of Missouri as a slave state.
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 Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States, was born at Kinderhook, New York, on the 5th of December 1782, of Dutch descent.
Van Buren did not originate the system, for it was already well-developed when he entered public life; but the nickname of "Little Magician" which presently attached to him testifies to the skill with which he exploited it, and to the popular impression which his political methods produced.
Van Buren's son Abraham (1807-1873) graduated at West Point in 1827, served under General Winfield Scott against the Seminole Indians in 1836, and was made captain of the First Dragoons.
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 First Ladies' Biographical Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
For Hannah Van Buren this meant that her home was frequently filled with her husband's cronies and aides, lawyers and other men of influence in the state.
Van Buren had been a widower for 18 years and he had no daughters, nor were there any women relatives of his, or spouses of Cabinet members that he either invited to preside as hostess at the White House or aid him in his own decisions regarding entertaining and decorating of the mansion's rooms.
Van Buren was widely admired in Washington; the French minister Adolphe Fourier de Bacourt, generally critical of Americans, remarked that she had graceful manners and an appearance that could pass muster with the elite of Europe.
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 Martin Van Buren
Van Buren artfully positioned himself in the eye of the storm, persistently advocating the principles of the Jeffersonian Republicans, namely states' rights, strict constitutional construction, and civil liberties.
Van Buren described one "improvement" to a friend in 1846 in this way: "When you visit me again you shall wash off the impurities of Mammon in the Bath which has been put up." Lindenwald was a source of great satisfaction to its owner.
It preserves 22 acres of land from Van Buren's original holdings, as well as the mansion that was built in the 1790s and renovated in the mid-19th century.
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 Hannah - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Hannah, in the Old Testament, the wife of Elkanah and the mother of the prophet Samuel.
Childless, Hannah came to the sanctuary in Shiloh to pray...
Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975), German-born American political scientist, noted for her writings on totalitarianism.
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 Van Buren :: Ladies First :: Paintings by Tina Mion
Hannah’s daughter-in-law Angelica Singleton Van Buren served as First Lady and secured her own place in history, but Angelica does not interest me — these paintings are about our Presidents’ wives: alive, dead, or in the shadows.
With so little source material on Hannah, I decided to use her early death to explore larger themes: fleeting youth, the fragility of life, the inevitability of death.
I gave Hannah red hair — her husband was a redhead, she was Dutch; maybe it was true.
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 National Obituary Archive(NOA) - Arrangeonline.com
Van Buren was born March 8, 1783 in Kinderhook, New York.
Van Buren was a very social person, entertaining relatives and business acquaintances of her husband.
Hannah Van Buren did not get to experience the life of a First Lady since she died 19 years before her husband became president.
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 Martin Van Buren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Van Buren announced his intention "to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor," and took over all but one of Jackson's cabinet.
Van Buren sent the army to the frontier, and it closed down the rebel bases.
Van Buren Masonic Cemetery is located in Van Buren, Indiana at the South end of town.
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 President Martin van Buren History Summary
Van Buren began a law career while in his teens and traveled to New York City to finish his preparation to become a lawyer.
Hannah was a modest and unassuming woman, content to remain at home and raise a family.
In 1812, Van Buren was elected to the New York state senate, and in 1815 he became the state's attorney general.
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 Presidents: Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, New York in 1782, thus becoming the first President to be born an American.
Van Buren's formal education ended at the age of 14, when he began to study law under Francis Sylvester, a prominent Federalist attorney.
Martin Van Buren, the first President to be born under the American flag, was known as a capable administrator.
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 THE PRESIDENT'S LADY: HANNAH HOES VAN BUREN
Hannah was raised in a Dutch home, just as Van Buren was, and never entirely lost her distinctive Dutch accent.
Van Buren always called her Jannetje, which is Dutch for Hanna.
Van Buren was reportedly devoted to Hannah, who was rather shy, an unusual trait for a politician’s wife.
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 Hannah Hoes Van Buren - Picture - MSN Encarta
Hannah Hoes Van Buren - Picture - MSN Encarta
In 1807 Hannah Hoes married her distant cousin, lawyer and politician Martin Van Buren.
In 1819 Hannah died of tuberculosis, 18 years before her husband became president of the United States.
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 Martin Van Buren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Van Buren suggested a way out of an eventual impasse: he and Secretary of War Eaton resigned, so that Calhoun men would also resign.
Van Buren devoted his Inaugural Address to a discourse upon the American experiment as an example to the rest of the world.
Van Buren's remedy--continuing Jackson's deflationary policies--only deepened and prolonged the depression.
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 Martin Van Buren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Most students of Van Buren's social and economic status dropped out after a couple of years to help their parents, but he stayed on as long as he could, even though he knew he could never afford to go to college as his wealthier classmates would.
Van Buren was accused of being a "dandy" by political opponents.
Hannah Hoes Van Buren and her future husband were cousins in a close-knit Dutch community.
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 Martin Van Buren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Martin Van Buren was the eight president of the United States.
Martin Van Burens became a lawyer in a young age.
Van Buren was also the most trusted advisor for the president.
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 Martin Van Buren Encyclopedia Articles @ OfficialTexts.com (Official Texts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Van Buren had originally hoped to block Adams' victory by denying him the state of New York (the state was divided between Van Buren supporters who would vote for and Adams' men).
Van Buren even had a New York journalist write a campaign piece portraying Jackson as a humble, pious man. "By the want of it we have been overthrown." In 1828, Van Buren was elected governor of New York for the term beginning on January 1, 1829, and resigned his seat in the Senate.
In August, he was appointed minister to the Court of St. He was cordially received, but in February, he learned that his nomination had been rejected by the Senate on January 25.
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 Biography of HANNAH HOES VAN BUREN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hannah Van Buren died almost two decades before her husband Martin assumed the Presidency in 1837.
Van Buren maintained close relationships with his children throughout his life.
She was married to the Van Burens' eldest son, Abraham and was also a relative of former First Lady, Dolly Madison.
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 Martin Van Buren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He was a key organizer of the Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, and the first president of non-Anglo descent; Dutch was spoken in his house when he was a boy.
Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York, approximately twenty-five miles south of Albany, the state capital, as the third of twenty children.
Martin Van Buren announced his intention "to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor," and took over all but one of Jackson\'s cabinet.
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 Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Cousins in a close-knit Dutch community, Hannah Hoes and Martin Van Buren grew up together in Kinderhook, New York.
Evidently he wanted to establish his law practice before marrying his sweetheart--they were not wed until 1807, when he was 24 and his bride just three months younger.
Apparently their marriage was a happy one, though little is known of Hannah as a person.
www.politicalquest.org /index.php/cssID/314/csf/Hannah_Van_Buren_wife_of_Martin_Van_Buren_biography   (417 words)

  
 Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782, in Kinderhook, New York.
Van Buren’s first political office was that of surrogate.
Van Buren became the legislative leader of the “Bucktails”, which was against DeWitt Clinton.
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 Van Buren's Presidential Hostess
Van Buren's wife, Hannah Hoes Van Buren, died of tuberculosis in 1819 after only 12 years of marriage and the birth of five sons, one of whom died when he was a baby.
By the time he became president, Van Buren had been a widower for 18 years.
He had no daughter to fill the role of presidential hostess and so he tried to assume such social duties himself.
www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/presidents/buren/hostess_1   (85 words)

  
 The Presidents - Martin Van Buren
Also, Martin Van Buren was the first Chief Executive born under the US flag.
Martin Van Buren's religious denomination was Dutch Reformed.
Derike is the oldest, then Hannah is the next oldest, then Martin is the next oldest, then Lawrence is the next, and Abraham is the youngest.
media.graniteschools.org /Curriculum/mt_rush/vanburen.htm   (415 words)

  
 Hannah Hoes Van Buren, First Lady
Hannah Van Buren died before Martin became president.
She and her distant cousin, Martin Van Buren, attended the same village school.
Before she died she asked that the money which would normally be spent on her funeral be given to the poor.
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 Hannah Hoes Van Buren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Biography: Cousins in a close-knit Dutch community, Hannah Hoes and Martin Van Buren grew up together in Kinderhook, New York.
Van Buren omitted even her name from his autobiography; a gentleman of that day would not shame a lady by public references.
In later years, though spending much time in South Carolina and in Europe, Angelica and her husband made their home in New York City; she died there in 1878.
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 Martin Van Buren
Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, New York by Abraham and Maria Hoes Van Buren from Holland.
Martin then married his distant cousin Hannah Hoes Van Buren in 1807.
After he started his poltical career in 1812 as state senator and reelected in 1816, people called him "Little Magician" because he was a political artist, so to speak.
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 Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren
Courtship and Marriage:    Martin Van Buren’s mother was a distant cousin of Hannah’s; therefore, they knew each other from childhood.  They were childhood sweethearts.  Martin and Hannah were married in Catskill, New York on February 21, 1807....
Years Before the White House:   Weakened by the births of five sons in a short time, Hannah Van Buren played little role in her husband’s career.  There is no doubt of the love between them, but there is a lack of primary information about Hannah Van Buren’s life....
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 american history - presidents
Martin Van Buren was the first president to be born an American citizen.
He was a smooth talker who glorified in giving speeches and was able to captivate audiences even as a child.
His mismanagement of the Seminole Indian War, refusal to annex Texas and the financial panic of 1837 did Van Buren in, and he lost his race for re-election in 1840.
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Marriage: Abraham Van Buren, 1838, one daughter who died in infancy
Van Buren's wife, Hannah Hoes Van Buren, who devoted much time to working with the poor, died of tuberculosis 18 years before he took office...
in 1838, while visiting Washington, was introduced to Van Buren and his four sons by Dolley Madison, a distant cousin...
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