Martin Van Buren
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Martin Van Buren (December 5 1782 – July 24 1862), nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the eighth President of the United States. He was the first organizer of the Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, the first president of non-Anglo descent (Dutch), and the only President whose first language was not English (but Dutch). First President born in the United States rather than the English colonies.
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Biography
Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York, twenty miles south of Albany, the state capital. His great-great-great-grandfather Cornelis had come to the New World in 1631 from the Netherlands. Martin's father was Abraham Van Buren (February 17, 1737–April 8, 1817), a farmer and popular tavern-keeper. His mother was Maria Hoes (February 27, 1743–February 16, 1817) who also had children from a previous marriage.
Van Buren was educated at the common schools and at Kinderhook Academy. In 1796, he began the study of law, completing his preparation in 1802 in New York City, where he studied under William Peter van Ness (1778–1826). In 1803, he was admitted to the bar and continued an active and successful practice for 25 years.
His practice made him financially independent, and paved the way for his entrance into politics. New York politics after 1800, the year of the election of Thomas Jefferson and the downfall of the Federalists, were particularly bitter and personal. The Republicans were divided into three factions: followers of George Clinton (and later of his nephew, De Witt Clinton), Robert R. Livingston and Aaron Burr. Federalist control after 1799 depended upon coalition with one or other of these groups. Van Buren, who allied himself early with the Clintonians, was surrogate of Columbia County from 1808 until 1813, when he was removed. In 1812 he entered the state Senate, and he also became a member of the Court for the Correction of Errors, the highest court in New York until 1847.
Early political career
His career in the New York Senate covered two terms (1812–1820). In 1815 he became the state attorney general, an office which he held, still as a member of the Senate, until 1819, when he was displaced to make room for a Federalist. He had already, in 1808, moved from Kinderhook to Hudson, and in 1816 he took up his residence in Albany, where he continued to reside until he entered Jackson's cabinet in 1829.
As a member of the state Senate he supported the War of 1812 and drew up a classification act for the enrollment of volunteers. He broke with De Witt Clinton in 1813, but nevertheless favored, in 1817, Clinton's plan for the Erie Canal. His 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. In the same year, he was chosen a presidential elector. It is at this point that Van Buren's connection began with so-called "machine politics". He was a leading member of the "Albany Regency," a group of politicians who for more than a generation controlled the politics of New York and powerfully influenced those of the nation, and which did more than any other agency to make the "spoils system" a recognized procedure in national, state and local affairs. Van Buren did not originate the system, but won the nickname of "Little Magician" for the skill with which he exploited it.
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He served also as a member of the state constitutional convention, where he opposed the grant of universal suffrage. In February 1821, Van Buren was elected to the United States Senate. Van Buren at first favored internal improvements and in 1824 proposed a constitutional amendment to authorize such undertakings, but the next year he took ground against them. He voted for the tariff of 1824 then gradually abandoned the protectionist position.
In the presidential election of 1824, he appeared as a strong supporter of William H. Crawford and received the electoral vote of Georgia for vice-president, but he shrewdly kept out of the acrimonious controversy which followed the choice of John Quincy Adams as President. He recognized early the potential of Andrew Jackson as a presidential candidate.
After the election, Van Buren sought to bring the Crawford and Jackson followers together and strengthened his control as a leader in the Senate. Always notably courteous in his treatment of opponents, he showed no bitterness either towards John Quincy Adams or Henry Clay and voted for Clay's confirmation as Secretary of State, notwithstanding the "corrupt bargain" charge. At the same time he opposed the Adams-Clay plans for internal improvements and declined to support the proposal for a Panama Congress. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, he brought forward a number of measures for the improvement of judicial procedure and in May 1826 joined with Benton in presenting a report on executive patronage. In the debate on the "tariff of abominations" in 1828, he took no part but voted for the measure in obedience to instructions from the New York legislature — an action which was cited against him as late as the presidential campaign of 1844.
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. In February 1827, he was re-elected to the Senate by a large majority. He was now one of the recognized managers of the Jackson campaign, and a tour of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia in the spring of 1827 won support for Jackson from Crawford.
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. On March 5, he was appointed by President Jackson as secretary of state, an office which probably had been assured to him before the election, and he resigned the governorship.
As Secretary of State, Van Buren took care to keep on good terms with the "kitchen cabinet," the group of politicians who acted as Jackson's advisers, and won the lasting regard of Jackson by his courtesies to Mrs. John H. Eaton (Peggy Eaton), wife of the Secretary of War, with whom the wives of the cabinet officers had refused to associate. He did not oppose Jackson in the matter of removals from office but was not himself an active "spoilsman". He skillfully avoided entanglement in the Jackson-Calhoun imbroglio. In May 1829, Van Buren discharged Philip Richard Fendall from his post as Clerk at the State Department, an early example of patronage termination.
No diplomatic questions of the first magnitude arose during Van Buren's service as Secretary of State, but the settlement of long-standing claims against France was prepared for, and trade with the British West Indies colonies was opened. In the controversy with the Bank of the United States, he sided with Jackson. After the breach between Jackson and Calhoun, Van Buren was clearly the most prominent candidate for the vice-presidency.
Jackson in December 1829 had already made known his own wish that Van Buren should receive the nomination. In April 1831, Van Buren resigned, though he did not leave office until June. In August, he was appointed minister to England, and arrived in London in September. He was cordially received, but in February learned that his nomination had been rejected by the Senate on January 25. The rejection, ostensibly attributed in large part to Van Buren's instructions to Louis McLane, the American minister to England, regarding the opening of the West Indies trade, in which reference had been made to the results of the election of 1828, was in fact the work of Calhoun, the vice-president; and when the vote was taken enough of the majority refrained from voting to produce a tie and give Calhoun his longed-for "vengeance." No greater impetus than this could have been given to Van Buren's candidacy for the vice-presidency.
After a brief tour on through Europe, Van Buren reached New York on July 5. In May, the Democratic convention, the first held by that party, had nominated him for vice-president on the Jackson ticket, despite the strong opposition to him which existed in many states. No platform was adopted, the widespread popularity of Jackson being relied upon to win success at the polls. His declarations during the campaign were vague regarding the tariff and unfavorable to the United States Bank and to nullification, but he had already somewhat placated the South by denying the right of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia without the consent of the slave states.
During Van Buren's presidential campaign the Democratic Party popularized his nickname "Old Kinderhook," which was abbreviated as "OK." Supporters' groups known as "OK Clubs" were set up. This is one possible origin of the expression "OK," although there are many other possible origins and the topic is much disputed.
In the election of 1832 he received 189 electoral votes, while Jackson received 219 for President. Jackson was now determined to make Van Buren president in 1836, and bent all his energies to that end. In May 1835 Van Buren was unanimously nominated by the Democratic convention at Baltimore. He expressed himself plainly on the questions of slavery and the bank, at the same time voting, perhaps with a touch of bravado, for a bill offered in 1836 to subject abolition literature in the mails to the laws of the several states. Van Buren's presidential victory represented more of a victory for Jackson and the party.
Presidency
Van Buren announced his intention "to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor," Martin Van Buren was president during the second worst depression in the history of the United States 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. No exhibition of ability or courage, however, nor yet the "most skilful manipulation of the political machinery of the party," could prevent continued hostility to him and to the methods for which he was widely believed to stand. The state elections of 1837 and 1838 were disastrous for the Democrats, and the partial recovery in 1839 was offset by a second commercial crisis in that year. Nevertheless, Van Buren was unanimously renominated by the Democrats in 1840.
Charged with being "a Northern man with Southern principles," he was frequently interrogated and attacked with the nickname Martin Van Ruin during the campaign, and his nomination obviously failed to arouse enthusiasm or even inspire confidence. The revolt against Democratic rule was undoubtedly serious, but a study of the popular vote shows that the election of Harrison, the Whig candidate, was less of a revolution than many affected to think.
Cabinet
| OFFICE | NAME | TERM |
| President | Martin Van Buren | 1837–1841 |
| Vice President | Richard M. Johnson | 1837–1841 |
| Secretary of State | John Forsyth | 1837–1841 |
| Secretary of the Treasury | Levi Woodbury | 1837–1841 |
| Secretary of War | Joel Poinsett | 1837–1841 |
| Attorney General | Benjamin Butler | 1837–1838 |
| Felix Grundy | 1838–1840 | |
| Henry D. Gilpin | 1840–1841 | |
| Postmaster General | Amos Kendall | 1837–1840 |
| John M. Niles | 1840–1841 | |
| Secretary of the Navy | Mahlon Dickerson | 1837–1838 |
| James K. Paulding | 1838–1841 | |
Martin Van Buren was president during the second worst depression in the history of the United States
Supreme Court appointments
Van Buren appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States:
- John Catron - 1837
- John McKinley - 1838
- Peter Vivian Daniel - 1842
Post Presidency
On the expiration of his term, Van Buren retired to his estate, Lindenwald, in the town of Kinderhook, where he planned out his return to the White House. He seemed to have the advantage for the nomination in 1844; his famous letter of April 27, 1844, 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. In the Democratic convention, though he had a majority of the votes, he did not have the two-thirds which the convention required, and after eight ballots his name was withdrawn. Dark horse James K. Polk received the nomination instead.
In 1848 he was nominated by two minor parties, first by the "Barnburner" faction of the Democrats, then by the Free Soilers, with whom the "Barnburners" coalesced. He won no electoral votes. In the election of 1860 he voted for the fusion ticket in New York which was opposed to Abraham Lincoln, but he could not approve of President Buchanan's course in dealing with secession, and eventually supported Lincoln.
After being bedridden with a case of pneumonia since the fall of 1861, Martin Van Buren died of bronchial asthma and heart failure at his Lindenwald estate in Kinderhook at 2:00 a.m. on July 24, 1862. His last words were: "There is but one reliance..." He is buried in the Kinderhook Cemetery.[{{fullurl:}}#endnote_death]
Trivia
Van Buren had several different nicknames during his lifetime, including Martin Van Ruin, Log Cabin Democrat and The Little Magician. One of his most well known nicknames was Old Kinderhook, claimed to be a possible origin for OK, the popular expression in the English language and other languages around the world. He was also known as "The Red Fox of Kinderhook" because of his bright red hair.
Masonic Lodge #6 Van Buren, AR is Named for him.
Van Buren Masonic Cemetery is located in Van Buren Indiana at the South end of town.
Although Martin Van Buren is thought to have been earliest President of whom of a photograph exists (though it was taken years after his presidency between 1840 and 1862), John Quincy Adams, the 6th President of the United States, was actually the earliest President of whom a photograph exists, though it was not taken until 1843.
Pop Culture References
On episode #148 of the popular T.V. sitcom, Seinfeld, George encounters local street gang known as The Van Buren Boys, named after President Martin Van Buren, whom they idolized. The fictional gang plays a crucial role in the plot of the episode which is named, appropriately enough, "The Van Buren Boys". George tries to avoid trouble with the thugs by flashing their secret sign, but fails to learn the sign from Kramer, who learned it accidently in a previous encounter. The secret sign of The Van Buren Boys was composed of crossing the hands, with one hand with all the fingers 'up' and spread out; the other hand has all but the thumb and pointer finger up. This made a total of eight fingers extended, symbolic of Van Buren being the eight President of The United States.
See also
References
Secondary sources
- Cole, Donald B. Martin Van Buren And The American Political System (1984)
- Curtis, James C. The Fox at Bay: Martin Van Buren and the Presidency, 1837-1841 (1970).
- Gammon, Samuel Rhea Gammon. The Presidential Campaign of 1832 (1922)
- Niven, John. Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics (2000).
- Remini, Robert V. Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party (1959).
- Silbey, Joel. Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics (2002)
- Wilson, Major L. The Presidency of Martin Van Buren (1984)
Primary sources
- Van Buren, Martin. Autobiography (1918}
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External links
- White House biography
- Van Buren biography from Kinderhook Connection
- Inaugural Address
- RootsWeb.com: The van Buren Family, since the 17th century
- First State of the Union Address of Martin Van Buren
- Second State of the Union Address of Martin Van Buren
- Third State of the Union Address of Martin Van Buren
- Fourth State of the Union Address of Martin Van Buren
- Martin van Buren National Historic Site (Lindenwald)
- Medical and Health history of Martin van Buren
- Works by Martin Van Buren at Project Gutenberg
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