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Martin Van Buren. Martin Van Buren was born on Dec. After graduating from the village school, he became a law clerk, entered practice in , and soon became active in state politics as state senator and attorney general. In , he was elected to the United States Senate. He threw the support of his efficient political organization, known as the Albany Regency, to William H.

Crawford in and to Jackson in After leading the opposition to Adams's administration in the Senate, he served briefly as governor of New York — and resigned to become Jackson's secretary of state. He was soon on close personal terms with Jackson and played an important part in the Jacksonian program.

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In , Van Buren became vice president; in , president. The Panic of overshadowed his term. He attributed it to the overexpansion of the credit and favored the establishment of an independent treasury as repository for the federal funds. In , he established a hour day on public works.

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Defeated by Harrison in , he was the leading contender for the Democratic nomination in until he publicly opposed immediate annexation of Texas, and was subsequently beaten by the Southern delegations at the Baltimore convention. This incident increased his growing misgivings about the slave power. After working behind the scenes among the anti-slavery Democrats, Van Buren joined in the movement that led to the Free-Soil Party and became its candidate for president in He subsequently returned to the Democratic Party while continuing to object to its pro-Southern policy.

He died in Kinderhook on July 24,