Was Martin Van Buren A Success Or A Failure

Martin Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York. His parents, Maria and Abraham Van Buren, were a struggling Dutch family with six kids, who owned a tavern and an inn which hosted government workers and political meetings. Martin’s family owned six slaves, which was common for living in New York. Martin went to school until he was fourteen years old and then dropped out and did not attend college. After he dropped out of school, Van Buren worked as a law clerk in a lawyer’s office for seven years. After he gave up the law clerk job, he headed to New York City and became a part of the state bar when he was twenty-one. Martin moved back to Kinderhook and, with his half brother, opened a law practice which made him very successful. His clients were mostly common people, which gained him a good reputation and social and economic relations. On February 21, 1807 Martin Van Buren married Hannah Hoes, who he had been dating since childhood and who was his first cousin’s

One of the main reasons he became president is because Jackson led him up to that point. During Van Buren’s presidency the Panic of 1837 occurred. A few months after he became president, the stock market crashed and his presidency began to fail drastically. The economy stopped when the banks around America started to fail and people lost their jobs when businesses started to fail. The economical failure sparked from Andrew Jackson’s presidency and from there is was hard to escape. During Van Buren’s presidency, he stopped Texas from becoming a state, which eased feuds between the North and South. Martin Van Buren ended up making the world a worse place despite his knowledge in government, because he could not control or help the Panic of 1873. Most people did not end up favoring Van Buren because of his lack of determination and even people in his own party despised