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  Martin Van Buren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782–July 24, 1862) was the eighth (1833-1837) Vice President and the eighth (1837-1841) President of the United States, and the first President born after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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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Martin Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782, in the village of Kinderhook, New York.
Van Buren won a conviction of Hull for cowardice and neglect of duty, and the general was sentenced to be shot.
Van Buren had resigned as governor because he knew that the office of secretary of state was usually the fastest road to the presidency.
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 Martin Van Buren Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York, twenty miles south of Albany, the state capital.
Van Buren announced his intention "to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor," took over all but one of Jackson's cabinet, and met with statesmanlike firmness the commercial crisis of 1837, already prepared for before he took office.
Nevertheless, Van Buren was unanimously renominated by the Democrats in 1840 despite his having overseen the trail of tears.
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 Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782, in Kinderhook, New York, the son of a Dutch farmer and tavern keeper, a relatively prosperous middle-class family.
Van Buren was a zealous adherent of Jefferson, and supported Morgan Lewis for governor of New York in 1803 against Aaron Burr.
In 1812 Van Buren was elected to the senate of New York from the middle district as a Clinton Republican, defeating Edward P. Livingston, the candidate of the " Quids," by a majority of 200.
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 First Ladies' Biographical Information
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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 Martin Van Buren : Martin van Buren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 - July 24, 1862) was the eighth (1837-1841) President of the United States and the first one born in the United States.
On the expiration of his term Van Buren retired to his estate at Kinderhook, but he did not withdraw from politics or cease to be a figure of national importance, It was even proposed to make him a member of the Federal Supreme Court in order to get him out of political life.
He confidently expected to be nominated for president in 1844, and his famous letter of the 27th of April, in which he frankly opposed the immediate annexation of Texas, though doubtless contributing greatly to his defeat, was not made public until he felt practically sure of the nomination.
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 Martin Van Buren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Van Buren also chose wisely when he decided to befriend Peggy O'Neil Eaton, wife of a cabinet secretary and a woman all of Washington chose to snub because she remarried too quickly after the death of her first husband.
Van Buren won the presidential election of 1836, beating William Henry Harrison of the newly formed Whig party, promising to carry on the policies of Andrew Jackson.
Van Buren failed to act decisively to remedy the situation and the economic storm raged on.
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 Van Buren
Van Buren carried with him into the election the great popularity that Jackson had achieved over two terms and announced that if elected, he would follow in his predecessor’s footsteps.
Martin Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782.
Van Buren went on to be very influential in the nation’s politics until his retirement in 1855.
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 American President
Martin Van Buren said that the two happiest days of his life were his entrance into the office of president and his surrender of the office.
Van Buren won the presidential election of 1836 by promising to carry on the policies of Andrew Jackson.
Van Buren’s response to the crisis revealed his belief in the principles of a limited federal government, defense of states rights, and protection of the “people” from the “powerful.” Thus, Van Buren rejected his Whig opposition’s suggestion that he support a National Bank, which the Whigs believed could oversee and stabilize the nation’s economy.
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 National Park Service - The Presidents (Martin Van Buren)
Shortly after Van Buren's marriage, he moved to nearby Hudson, N.Y. Between then and 1820, in a rapid political ascendancy, he held the offices of surrogate of Columbia County, State senator, and State attorney general; and organized the Albany Regency, a powerful political organization whose chief tool was patronage.
Van Buren sought the Presidency twice after he left office and was nominated once, by the antislavery Free Soil Party in 1848.
Van Buren died in 1862 at the age of 79.
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Hannah Hoes and Martin Van Buren were wed on February 21, 1807.
Hannah died at age 35 of tuberculosis on February 5, 1819, thus making President Van Buren the third widower to be inaugurated president of the United States.
Hannah Van Buren was buried in Albany, New York, but Martin Van Buren later had her reburied in Kinderhook.
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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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 Martin Van Buren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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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Van Buren was the first president born in the United States.
Van Buren took $100,000, the sum of his salary as president over four years, in a lump sum at the end of his term.
Van Buren was from Kinderhook, New York, sometimes referred to as Old Kinderhook in speeches and print.
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 The Presidents of the United States - Martin Van Buren
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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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Hannah Arendt
Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975), German-born American political scientist, noted for her writings on totalitarianism.
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 for...
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 THE PRESIDENT'S LADY: HANNAH HOES VAN BUREN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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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 Van Buren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Van Buren is the name of several places in the United States of America, probably named for the eighth President of the United States of America, Martin Van Buren:
Van Buren was also the codename for Fallout 3 computer game.
Martin Van Buren, President of the United States
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Van Buren Abigail
Van Buren, Abigail, born in 1918, pseudonym of Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips, American newspaper columnist.
Van Buren, Martin (1782-1862), eighth president of the United States (1837-1841) and the first president born after the United States won its...
Arkansas, and especially Little Rock, spent a good part of 1958 in the national and international limelight because of continuing problems surrounding racial integration in the public schools.
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 Hannah Hoes Van Buren --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Martin Van Buren, like his predecessors Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, had no wife when he became the president of the United States.
Martin Van Buren was born on Dec. 5, 1782, in Kinderhook, N.Y., a village located south of Albany on the east bank of the Hudson River.
The first president born as a United States citizen was Martin Van Buren, who was the eighth president of the United States and one of the founders of the Democratic party.
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 NTU Info Centre: Martin Van Buren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782—July 24, 1862), nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the eighth President of the United States.
He was the first President born after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the first of non-Anglo descent, and the only whose first language was not English.
Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York, 20 miles south of Albany, the state capital.
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Hannah Hoes and Martin Van Buren were distant cousins and childhood sweethearts.
Martin Van Buren said that the two happiest days of his life were his entrance into...
Were Martin Van Buren, a former president and an abolitionist James Buchanan, a moderate Lewis Cass, a general and expansionist From Nashville came a dark horse riding up He was James K. Polk, Napoleon of the Stump...
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She was born Hannah Hoes in the small town of Kinderhook, New York comprised almost entirely of Dutch ancestry.
Hannah was stricken with tuberculous, not yet 36, and while convalescing at home in Kinderhook passed away.
Hannah never made it to the White House, never saw her husband become President or see her sons in important national political positions, but her presence was felt during her husband's Presidency more than that of many women who did serve as First Lady.
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 The White House Historical Association > Timelines
Van Buren omitted even Hannah’s name from his autobiography - a gentleman of that day would not shame a lady by public references.
She bore a son in Kinderhook, three others in Hudson, where Van Buren served as county surrogate.
For receptions she revived the formality of the Van Buren administration, welcoming guests with plumes in her hair and attended by maids of honor.
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 Biography of HANNAH HOES VAN BUREN
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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 The First Ladies of the United States - Hannah Hoes Van Buren
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.
Van Buren omitted even her name from his autobiography; a gentleman of that day would not shame a lady by public references.
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 Hannah Van Buren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hannah Van Buren (nee Hoes) (1783 - February 5, 1819) was the wife of the 8th United States President Martin Van Buren from 1807, until her death.
During his term, his daughter-in-law, Angelica Van Buren performed the ceremonial duties of First Lady.
This United States biographical article is a stub.
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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.
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 Martin Van Buren
After working behind the scenes among the anti-slavery Democrats, Van Buren joined in the movement that led to the Free-Soil Party and became its candidate for president in 1848.
Martin Van Buren - Van Buren, Martin, 1782–1862, 8th President of the United States (1837–41), b.
Martin Van Buren's path to presidency holds lesson for Weld; Jesse Helms' vow to block William Weld's nomination as the ambassador to Mexico has parallels with a feud between Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun.
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