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Martin Van Buren was sworn in as the eighth President of the United States on March 4, 1837. He retained much of Jackson's cabinet and lower-level appointees, as he hoped that the retention of Jackson's appointees would stop Whig momentum in the South and restore confidence in the Democrats as a party of sectional unity. [152]
Martin Van Buren (1837–1841) First president born after ... First president to be filmed in color. [238] First president to have a Canadian parent. [239]
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His four years in the White House were marked by a financial recession so severe that his enemies called him as “Martin Van Ruin.” But a new biography, Martin Van Buren: America’s First ...
Matty Van from "Tippecanoe Songs of 1840" [48] The Mistletoe Politician, so called by Joseph Peyton of Tennessee, a Whig opponent, who charged that "Martin Van Buren was a mere political parasite, a branch of mistletoe, that owed its elevation, its growth--nay, its very existence, to the tall trunk of an aged hickory" (i.e. Andrew Jackson). [49]
Martin Van Buren had the room carpeted and wallpapered in blue in 1837, [2] and it has remained the tradition ever since. However, many administrations have made changes to the decoration. During the administration of James Buchanan, the room was refurbished in a Victorian style called Rococo Revival. Buchanan was a lifelong bachelor.
Martin Van Buren's Liberty Van Buren reading in the grass in his home village of Kinderhook: November 25, 2008 [63] $549.95 6,807 1837–1841 9 9 Anna Harrison: Mrs. Harrison reading to her children March 5, 2009 [64] $629.00 6,251 1841 10 10 Letitia Tyler: Mrs. Tyler with children on Cedar Grove Plantation: July 2, 2009 [65] N/A 5,296 1841 ...
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