Martin Van Buren Biography

8th President of the United States.

Born: Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y., December 5, 1782.

Van Buren studied law and was admitted to the bar.

He was the attorney general of New York 1816-1819.

Governor of New York in 1829.

Elected Vice President of the United States 1833.

President of the United States from March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841.

Died: July 24, 1862.



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