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You can enjoy an on line tour of President Van Buren’s home by clicking on the button. Van Buren and his family resided here at “Lindenwald,” a 220 acre farm, from 1841 to 1862. During that time, amidst the rough and tumble of antebellum politics, the President orchestrated two more campaigns for the White House from these very rooms.
Failing re-election in 1840, Martin Van Buren returned to his recently purchased estate only two miles from the small New York village of Kinderhook where he was born and raised. He immediately began planning his return to the White House in the 1844 presidential election; however, Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, was not elected to a second term. Not until after the ...
The contest between Democrat Martin Van Buren and Whig William Henry Harrison results in the largest turnout of any election to that point. Harrison soundly defeats Van Buren with 234 electoral votes to the incumbent's 60. Among the reasons for his loss, Van Buren cannot overcome opposition from southern and expansionist groups who support the immediate annexation of Texas.
Martin Van Buren Portrait. Creator: Alexander Francis, c. 1830-1840. President Van Buren is painted here with long sideburns, wavy hair, and a polite expression. He was known to have expensive tastes. The president's salary was $25,000 a year, a substantial sum; however, the president was responsible for paying for the cost of running the White ...
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States (1837-1841), after serving as the eighth Vice President and the tenth Secretary of State, both under President Andrew Jackson. While the country was prosperous when the "Little Magician" was elected, less than three months later the financial panic of 1837 punctured the prosperity.
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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 ...
