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  Martin Van Buren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York, twenty miles south of Albany, the state capital.
New York politics after 1800, the year of the election of Jefferson and the downfall of the Federalists, were particularly bitter and personal.
Van Buren was not an orator, but his more important speeches show careful preparation and his opinions carried weight; the oft-repeated charge that he refrained from declaring himself on crucial questions is hardly borne out by an examination of his senatorial career.
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 MSN Encarta - Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782, in the village of Kinderhook, New York.
Martin Van Buren's formal education was acquired at the local village academy, from which he was graduated at the age of 14.
Van Buren remained at Sylvester's law office until he was 20, after which he moved to New York City and entered the law office of William P. Van Ness.
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 USA-Presidents.Info - Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 - July 24, 1862) was the eighth (1833 - 1837) Vice President, the eighth (1837 - 1841) President of the United States and the first President born after the Declaration of Independence.
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.
Nevertheless, Van Buren was unanimously renominated by the Democrats in 1840.
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 William Holme Van Buren (www.whonamedit.com)
In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, Van Buren was one of the founders of the United States sanitary commission, and served as the medical member of its executive committee throughout the civil war, declining the appointment of surgeon-general of the United States army.
Van Buren's plans for a new building near Bellevue Hospital were rejected and he resigned his professorship his professorship in the University medical college in 1866, on being elected professor of surgery for the newly established department of diseases of the genito-urinary system in Bellevue hospital medical college.
Van Buren is still famed for his skill in amputations and other operations of general surgery, but particularly distinguished himself in the field of diseases of the urogenital system, on which he published several valuable contributions.
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 First Ladies' Biographical Information
Re-interred at Kinderhook cemetery, Kinderhook, New York, 1855
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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 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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 Martin Van Buren - His Early Years
Van Buren opposed Aaron Burr for Governor of New York in 1804.
Van Buren's own New York legislature cast the state's electoral vote for John Quincy Adams, and when the House of Representatives gave Adams the presidency, it was the New York delegation that furnished him the necessary vote for a majority on the first ballot.
Van Buren's role in hammering out the program and determining the strategy by which the ill-assorted Jackson coalition of 1828 became the disciplined, unified Democratic machine of 1832 was all important.
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 AllPolitics - Democratic National Convention
Nominee Horatio Seymour, a former governor of New York, had to be physically pulled out of the convention because of his opposition to his candidacy.
Alton B. Parker, the Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals, was the nominee for president.
New York Gov. Mario Cuomo's "Tale of Two Cities" speech was the convention's highlight.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/chicago/facts/convention/index.shtml   (3238 words)

  
 Van Buren, Martin -> A Jacksonian Democrat on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Probably the most influential of Jackson's advisers, Van Buren, although essentially opposed to the doctrine of nullification, did not at first take a conspicuous part in the rising hostilities between Vice President John C. Calhoun and the President.
Van Buren further strengthened his position with Jackson by being courteous to Peggy Eaton (see O'Neill, Margaret).
Thoroughly in accord with Jackson's policies, Van Buren was nominated for Vice President by the Democratic party in 1832 and was elected to office along with President Jackson.
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 The History of Van Buren County, Michigan :: The Southwest Michigan Directory
The Morris cabin hosted Van Buren's first gospel sermon (delivered by the Reverend William Sprague, a Methodist minister who later served in Congress) and witnessed the birth of the county's first pioneer child, Lewis Creighton Morris, who was born on August 4, 1830.
In 1835, six years after Van Buren County-named after Martin Van Buren of New York, who served as secretary of state, vice president and president-was set off, a gubernatorial commission chose the settlement at Lawrence as the county seat.
The Van Buren County Courthouse, "a handsome, dignified and richly decorated Classical Revival structure," was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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 History of Mattawan, Michigan
Van Buren County was formed by an act of the Legislative Council of Michigan and approved on October 29, 1829, by General Lewis Cass, Territorial Governor.
The county was named after Martin Van Buren of New York who was then serving as President Jackson's Secretary of State.
Although he and his followers were exempted from the Chicago treaty of 1821 and the later treaties of 1828 and 1833, a majority of the Potawatomi Indians left Van Buren County prior to statehood in 1836.
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 Van Buren
Van Buren, Arkansas, United States [City]; population was 14,979 in 1990; housing units was 5,763 in 1990; location is 35°27'N 94°21'W; land area is 14.66 square miles (9,381 acres); water area is 0.72 square miles (461 acres); FIPS code is 71480 [SourceCBP]
Van Buren, Arkansas, United States [County]; population was 14,008 in 1990; housing units was 7,580 in 1990; location is 35°35'N 92°31'W; land area is 711.56 square miles (455,397 acres); water area is 12.80 square miles (8,194 acres); FIPS code is 141 [SourceCBP]
Van Buren, Iowa, United States [County]; population was 7,676 in 1990; housing units was 3,529 in 1990; location is 40°45'N 91°57'W; land area is 485.25 square miles (310,563 acres); water area is 5.34 square miles (3,415 acres); FIPS code is 177 [SourceCBP]
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 The Political Graveyard: Cantine-Van Buren family of New York
Moses I. Cantine (1774-1823) — of New York.
Son of Abraham Van Buren and Maria Hoes (Van Alen) Van Buren; married to the sister-in-law of
Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, N.Y. Van Buren County, Ark.
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 The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'Martin Van Buren': The Original Party Boss
Van Buren spent the remainder of his long life vainly attempting to hold the Union together.
Van Buren grasped that the political future lay more with leaders from booming New York -- the wealthiest, most populous, most ethnically diverse state in the nation -- than with the grandees of Virginia and Massachusetts who had been in charge since the days of the Continental Congress.
Van Buren, as Widmer wisely concludes, was one of those ''not-quite-heroic'' figures without whom no democracy would operate for long.
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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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 Weekender Tips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I was curious as to why his portrait was so prominently displayed in New York City Hall, and I discovered that not only was Martin Van Buren New York State resident, but he also was a Columbia County resident.
Martin Van Buren was born in Columbia County on December 5, 1782.
His main contribution to New York State and the country was the Erie Canal.
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 SLAVERY & NESARA, THE FABULOUS BEAST OF MYTHOLOGY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nonetheless, Van Buren failed to persuade enough Conservatives to support his bill in the House, and land-hungry western States Democrats joined with their Whig opponents to defeat the measure.
For Van Buren and his "Barnburners" in New York, their very real success in obtaining the Independent Treasury was suddenly eclipsed by the intensification of the depression.
The view from sunny southern New England is not a pleasant one: it appears that NESARA is nothing more than 'a chimera,' a fabulous beast which roars and spreads its fiery breath over the wicked and the infidels, but which is more correctly defined as "a mere phantom of the imagination".
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 Miller Center — Martin Van Buren Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Curtis, James C. The Fox at Bay: Martin Van Buren and the Presidency, 1837-1841.
See Winfield Scott under "Van Buren Contemporaries" for information on his involvement in the Cherokee Removal.
Hall and Abraham cover Van Buren's appointments of John McKinley and Peter Daniel to the Supreme Court.
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 Van Buren Home Travel Planner - Martin Van Buren National Historic Site by TravelEze.com
The Eighth President of the United States, Martin Van Buren purchased the estate in 1839 during his Presidency.
Van Buren was born in Kinderhook in 1782, the last yearof the American Revolution.
During the seventy-nine years of his life, he was instrumental in the establishment of many of the political practices and party politics which saw the new nation from its inception to its trial by ordeal.
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 Van Buren, New York NY, town profile (Onondaga County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Van Buren, NY Van Buren is a town in Onondaga County, in the Syracuse metro area.
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Van Buren was $20,997, compared with $21,587 nationally.
Median rent in Van Buren, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $512.
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 VAN BUREN, Martin (1782-1862) Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Martin Van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology.
Roper, Donald M. “Martin Van Buren as Tocqueville’s Lawyer: The Jurisprudence of Politics.” Journal of the Early Republic 2 (Summer 1982): 169-189.
Whitehurst, Alto L. “Martin Van Buren and the Free Soil Movement.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1932.
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 Van Buren - New York - DJs, Photographers, or Entertainers - National Association of Mobile Entertainers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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Van Buren, New York attorney listings can easily be located by first navigating to the required state and then moving on to a city.
New York State falls under the 2nd Circuit.
Association of the Bar of the City of New York LRS New York, NY (212)626-7373 New York, Kings, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island
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 Van Buren New York Lawyers NY Van Buren Lawyers Directory
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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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 Martin Van Buren National Historic Site (National Park Service)
The promise of the American Revolution, the turmoil of antebellum politics and the tragedy of the Civil War frame Martin Van Buren’s life.
Martin Van Buren positioned himself in the eye of the political storm and in the process helped to found the Democratic Party.
His skill propelled him to the presidency in 1837, but it was not enough to assure reelection to a second term in the wake of a massive bank panic and economic depression.
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 Van Line Movers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 New York Court Lets Environmental Cops Issue Speeding Tickets
In a 5-4 decision, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Water Supply Police have the authority to issue speeding tickets outside city limits.
The DEP police were created in 1906 to protect the city's water supply, and have jurisdiction within the city watershed which spans 2000 miles across eight counties.
Van Buren (New York Court of Appeals, 5/10/2005)
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