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PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY

Martin Van Buren

1837–1841

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Martin Van Buren served in the U.S. Senate and held the offices of secretary of state and vice president under Andrew Jackson. He became the eighth president in 1837. The financial panic that year and the economic depression that followed shaped his administration. Van Buren proposed separating federal funds from private banking. His political career began in New York, where he practiced law and organized a political coalition.

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