Martin Van Buren
US President — born 1782
Martin Van Buren was the first American president who was born as the citizen of United States, free from the British colonial rule.
Martin Van Buren was the 8th President of the United States (1837–1841) and the first US president born as an American citizen — born after the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States. He was born Martin Van Buren on December 5, 1782, in Kinderhook, New York, into an Dutch-American family. He was the first President not of British Isles ancestry. He attended the Kinderhook Academy and apprenticed in local law offices, passing the New York bar in 1803.
His political career began in local New York Democratic-Republican politics in the early 1800s. He served in the New York State Senate (1812–1820) and as New York Attorney General (1815–1819) before being elected to the United States Senate (1821–1828). His political reputation was built on political organization — Van Buren is widely cited as one of the founders of the American Democratic Party in the late 1820s, particularly through his alliance with Andrew Jackson.
He served as US Secretary of State under President Jackson (1829–1831) and as the 8th US Vice President during Jackson's second term (1833–1837). He won the 1836 presidential election as the Democratic Party candidate, defeating four Whig Party candidates. His single-term presidency was shaped by the 1837 Panic — the American economic depression that began with the May 1837 New York banking failures and produced one of the most-severe recessions in 19th-century American history.
The Panic of 1837 damaged Van Buren's reelection chances. He lost the 1840 election to William Henry Harrison and the Whig Party's "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" campaign. He ran for President again in 1848 as the Free Soil Party candidate, finishing third behind Whig Zachary Taylor and Democrat Lewis Cass. He died on July 24, 1862, at age 79, at his Lindenwald estate in Kinderhook, New York.
His name Martin is from the Latin Martinus, derived from Mars (the Roman god of war), with anchoring through Saint Martin of Tours. Martin has been continuously among the most-popular American boys' names for decades.
About the name Martin
Gender: Male · Origin: English
Warrior Of Mars.