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Martin Van Buren On December 5th, 1782, the eighth president was born in Kinderhook, New York. His birth parents were Maria Van Buren and Abraham Van Buren. Even though he ran a tavern, which held many political meetings and first exposed Martin Van Buren to politics his father was a farmer. Van Buren would be present at many local schools, and the Kinderhook Academy until he was the age of 14. Van Buren’s father had secured Martin an apprenticeship with a lawyer because he was unable to send Martin to college because he could not afford it. In later years Van Buren had studied law and in 1803 he was admitted to the bar. Van Buren had married his long distant cousin Hannah Hoes, they later had 4 children together. While Van Buren was almost done with his second term as the New York Senate Hannah Hoes had died of Tuberculosis. Even though this was a horrible tragedy he didn’t let this bring him down he still pursued his political goals. It is a good thing that he didn’t let it bring him down …show more content…

Van Buren was a Democrat and was against two other opponents. William Henry Harrison and Hugh Lawson White, who were both from the Whig party. During the election, Van Buren had gotten 170 electoral votes. Harrison only got 73 and White got 26, making Van Buren win by a landslide. Right away Van Buren had faced a major difficulty in his presidency, it was a financial panic. Andrew Jackson had left Van Buren to deal with this at the end of his second term and many had blamed Van Buren for the crisis. The financial panic had happened because of the transfer of federal funds from the Bank of the United States to state banks. This transfer had caused thousands of people to lose their land and hundreds of banks and businesses to fail. Van Buren had blamed the Bank of the United States, but Van Buren’s political opponents blamed him for the

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