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This is a Barrier Free area of Carson Park. Handicap accessible
picnic facilities as well as dock fishing are available. This is
Braun's Bay in Carson Park. It is interesting to note that the
water that surrounds this park was originally part of the river. At
one time the river flowed through this area. As is normal in rivers
that are prone to flooding, the river cut out a simpler path during
one of it's many floods years ago. Stealth will be of the utmost
here.
Information gleaned from : http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/index2.html,
http://www.americanpresidents.org/,
& American Heritage Michael Beschloss, general editor ©
2000
Life
Facts
Personal:
• First
Lady: Angelica Singleton Van Buren,
daughter-in-law
• Wife's
Maiden Name: Hannah Hoes
• Number
of Children: 4
• Education Level: No College
• School
Attended: No College
• Religion: Dutch Reformed
• Profession: Lawyer
Public Service:
• Dates of
Presidency: 3/4/1837 - 3/3/1841
• Presidency Number: 8
• Number
of Terms: 1
• Why
Presidency Ended: Defeated
• Party: Democratic
• His Vice
President(s): Richard M. Johnson
• Vice
President For: Andrew Jackson (1833-1837)
• Cabinet
Service: Secretary of State (Andrew Jackson,
1829-1831)
• Senator: New York (1821-1828)
• Governor
of a State: New York (1829-1829)
• State
Legislative Service: NY (1812-1820)
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Did You
Know?
• He presided over the economic Panic of 1837.
• He was the first president born as a United States citizen.
• Until George Bush, Martin Van Buren was the last vice president
to be elected to succeed the president under whom he served.
• He was described as a "dandy," and known to be an exquisite
dresser who enjoyed expensive wine and rich food. |
Only about 5 feet, 6 inches tall, but trim and erect, Martin Van
Buren dressed fastidiously. His impeccable appearance belied his
amiability--and his humble background. Of Dutch descent, he was
born in 1782, the son of a tavernkeeper and farmer, in Kinderhook,
New York.
As a young lawyer he became involved in New York politics. As
leader of the "Albany Regency," an effective New York political
organization, he shrewdly dispensed public offices and bounty in a
fashion calculated to bring votes. Yet he faithfully fulfilled
official duties, and in 1821 was elected to the United States
Senate.
By 1827 he had emerged as the principal northern leader for
Andrew Jackson. President Jackson rewarded Van Buren by appointing
him Secretary of State. As the Cabinet Members appointed at John C.
Calhoun's recommendation began to demonstrate only secondary
loyalty to Jackson, Van Buren emerged as the President's most
trusted adviser. Jackson referred to him as, "a true man with no
guile."
The rift in the Cabinet became serious because of Jackson's
differences with Calhoun, a Presidential aspirant. Van Buren
suggested a way out of an eventual impasse: he and Secretary of War
Eaton resigned, so that Calhoun men would also resign. Jackson
appointed a new Cabinet, and sought again to reward Van Buren by
appointing him Minister to Great Britain. Vice President Calhoun,
as President of the Senate, cast the deciding vote against the
appointment--and made a martyr of Van Buren.
The "Little Magician" was elected Vice President on the
Jacksonian ticket in 1832, and won the Presidency in 1836.
Van Buren devoted his Inaugural Address to a discourse upon the
American experiment as an example to the rest of the world. The
country was prosperous, but less than three months later the panic
of 1837 punctured the prosperity.
Basically the trouble was the 19th-century cyclical economy of
"boom and bust," which was following its regular pattern, but
Jackson's financial measures contributed to the crash. His
destruction of the Second Bank of the United States had removed
restrictions upon the inflationary practices of some state banks;
wild speculation in lands, based on easy bank credit, had swept the
West. To end this speculation, Jackson in 1836 had issued a Specie
Circular requiring that lands be purchased with hard money--gold or
silver.
In 1837 the panic began. Hundreds of banks and businesses
failed. Thousands lost their lands. For about five years the United
States was wracked by the worst depression thus far in its
history.
Programs applied decades later to alleviate economic crisis
eluded both Van Buren and his opponents. Van Buren's
remedy--continuing Jackson's deflationary policies--only deepened
and prolonged the depression.
Declaring that the panic was due to recklessness in business and
over expansion of credit, Van Buren devoted himself to maintaining
the solvency of the national Government. He opposed not only the
creation of a new Bank of the United States but also the placing of
Government funds in state banks. He fought for the establishment of
an independent treasury system to handle Government transactions.
As for Federal aid to internal improvements, he cut off
expenditures so completely that the Government even sold the tools
it had used on public works.
Inclined more and more to oppose the expansion of slavery, Van
Buren blocked the annexation of Texas because it assuredly would
add to slave territory--and it might bring war with Mexico.
Defeated by the Whigs in 1840 for reelection, he was an
unsuccessful candidate for President on the Free Soil ticket in
1848. He died in 1862.