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Martin Van Burn: A Brief Biography

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Martin Van Burn was born on December 5, 1782 in New York. In 1812, he was elected as a member of the New York senate, which helped to prove how adequate of a politician he was. After the election of 1824 and the corrupt bargain, Van Buren, William Crawford, Andrew Jackson, John Calhoun, and a number of other Democratic-Republicans banded together to form the Democratic Party. In 1828, Van Buren served as the New York Governor for a few months before Jackson was elected president and chose him as his Secretary of State. For Jackson 's second term Van Buren served as minister to Great Britain and was then elected president in 1837. He was immediately met with a number of political challenges, the momst significant of these being the Panic of 1837
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