Martin Van Buren
BIRTH
Dec 5, 1782
Kinderhook, New York
DEATH
July 24, 1862
Kinderhook, New York
Vice-President of the United States
1833-1837
FAMILY
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Van Buren, Martin
(1782-1862)
Martin Van Buren was a New York lawyer and political organizer who became the eighth president of the United States. The first president born after the Declaration of Independence, he helped build the Democratic Party and previously served as senator, governor, secretary of state, and vice president.
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BROTHER
Abraham Van Buren
(1807-1873)
BROTHER
Winfield Scott Van Buren
(1814-1814)
BROTHER
Smith Thompson Van Buren
(1817-1876)
WIFE
Hannah Van Buren
(1783-1819)
Abraham Van Buren
(1807-1873)
Smith Thompson Van Buren
(1817-1876)
John Van Buren
(1810-1866)
Winfield Scott Van Buren
(1814-1814)
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DIED:
Kinderhook, New York
Jul 24, 1862
Martin Van Buren was born on Dec 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Martin Van Buren with work or public activity as a statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Martin Van Buren died on Jul 24, 1862 in Kinderhook, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.