Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States. He served one term as president of the United States in the Democratic party. Van Buren was a founder of the
Democratic party and was in many senior positions including positions like eighth Vice
President, and tenth Secretary of the State. His Vice President was Richard Johnson and was preceded by Andrew Jackson and Succeeded by William Henry Harrison.
Martin Van Buren was born on December 5,1782, he was the first American President to be born not as a British subject. Van Bruen had a struggling childhood, his family included his two parents and his five siblings. Van Bruen was the fourth oldest out of the six children.
However his family was not rich at all but still owned six slaves which was common…show more content… He worked there for about seven years, he swept the floors, and ran errands but at night he was always studying law. He then moved to New York city and was gained admission to the state bar at the age of twenty-one. He then moved back to Kinderhook and opened up his own law practice and achieved decent success.
Van Buren joined Thomas Jefferson in the Democratic-Republican party. Van Buren recognised weaknesses and wanted to fix these problems by making a unified political organization, first in New York and then across the nation. Van Bruen realized that he could not do this so saw the importance in crowning the Democratic Party which he hoped could control the intra -party conflict in order to defeat his opponents. Van Buren defeated William Harrison in the 1836 election. He took office in 1837 however the nation was in a great financial panic because by the transfer of federal funds. Van Bruen proposed an independent treasury to handle the federal funds that had been moved to state banks in order to ensure the government would remain solvent. However this drove Democrats into the Whig party.
After leaving the White House Van Bruen grew increasingly opposed to
