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Van Buren, Martin
Biography
5 Dec. 1782–24 July 1862. Lawyer, politician, diplomat, farmer. Born in Kinderhook, Columbia Co., New York. Son of Abraham Van Buren and Maria Hoes Van Alen. Member of Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. Worked as law clerk, 1800, in New York City. Returned to Kinderhook, 1803. Married Hannah Hoes, 21 Feb. 1807, in Catskill, Greene Co., New York. Served as surrogate of Columbia Co., 1808–1813. Moved to Hudson, Columbia Co., 1809. Served as state senator, 1813–1820; as regent of University of New York, beginning 1815; and as attorney general of New York, 1816–1819. Moved to Albany, 1816. Served as U.S. senator, 1821–1828. Elected governor of New York, 1829. U.S. Secretary of State, 1829–1831. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1831–1832. Served as vice president of U.S., 1833–1837, and as president of U.S., 1837–1841. Declined to assist JS and Saints in obtaining redress for losses in Missouri, Nov. 1839. Retired to Kinderhook to farm. Toured Europe, 1853–1855. Died in Kinderhook.
Links
papers
- History Draft [1 January–31 December 1840]
- History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 [2 November 1838–31 July 1842]
- General Joseph Smith’s Appeal to the Green Mountain Boys, 21 November–circa 3 December 1843
- General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States, circa 26 January–7 February 1844
- Times and Seasons, 15 September 1842
- Circular, 23 September 1843
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845
- Discourse, 1 March 1840
- Discourse, 16 May 1841, as Published in Times and Seasons
- Discourse, 25 April 1841, as Reported by Julius Alexander Reed
- Discourse, 5 February 1840
- Discourse, 6 May 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards
- Discourse, 7 April 1840
- Discourse, circa 19 July 1840, as Reported by Martha Jane Knowlton Coray–A
- Discourse, circa 19 July 1840, as Reported by Martha Jane Knowlton Coray–B
- History Draft [1 January–21 June 1844]
- History Draft [1 March–31 December 1843]
- History, 1838–1856, volume D-1 [1 August 1842–1 July 1843]
- History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844]
- History, 1838–1856, volume F-1 [1 May 1844–8 August 1844]
- Journal, 1839
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 2, 10 March 1843–14 July 1843
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 3, 15 July 1843–29 February 1844
- Land Patent, 7 September 1838–A
- Land Patent, 7 September 1838–B
- Land Patent, 7 September 1838–B, Copy
- Land Patent, 7 September 1838–C
- Letter from David S. Hollister, 9 May 1844
- Letter from Elias Higbee, 22 February 1840
- Letter from Emma Smith, 6 December 1839
- Letter from Heber C. Kimball, 9 July 1840
- Letter from Horace Hotchkiss, 17 March 1840
- Letter from Hyrum Smith, 2 January 1840
- Letter from Isaac Galland, 5 April 1841
- Letter from James Adams, 4 January 1840
- Letter from Joseph L. Heywood, 23 October 1843
- Letter from Orson Hyde, 30 April 1844
- Letter from Orson Hyde, 9 June 1844
- Letter from Robert B. Thompson, 13 May 1839
- Letter from Robert D. Foster, 24 December 1839
- Letter from William S. Wright, 24 July 1842
- Letter of Introduction from James Adams, 9 November 1839
- Letter of Introduction from Sidney Rigdon, 9 November 1839
- Letter to Elias Higbee, 7 March 1840
- Letter to Henry Clay, 13 May 1844
- Letter to Hyrum Smith and Nauvoo High Council, 5 December 1839
- Letter to John C. Calhoun, 2 January 1844
- Letter to Presidential Candidates, 4 November 1843, Draft
- Letter to Robert D. Foster, 11 March 1840
- Letter to Seymour Brunson and Nauvoo High Council, 7 December 1839
- Letter to Seymour Brunson and Nauvoo High Council, 7 December 1839, Copy
- Letter, Willard Richards to James Arlington Bennet, 20 November and 22 December 1842
- Letterbook 2
- License for Frederick G. Williams, 27 April 1835
- Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845
- Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1845
- Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, circa 30 October 1839–27 January 1840
- Minutes and Discourse, 6–8 April 1840
- Minutes and Discourses, 6–7 April 1843, as Reported by William Clayton
- Minutes and Discourses, 6–7 April 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards
- Minutes, 26 May 1842
- Minutes, 4–5 May 1839
- Proclamation, 15 January 1841
- Proclamation, between 19 January and 27 August 1841
- Recommendation from Nauvoo High Council, 27 October 1839
- Revised Minutes and Discourses, 23 April-circa 8 May 1843, Willard Richards Draft
- Revised Minutes and Discourses, 23 April–circa 8 May 1843
- Sidney Rigdon, JS, et al., Petition Draft (“To the Publick”), circa 1838–1839
- Statement, circa 1 November 1839–A
- “A History, of the Persecution, of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day Saints in Missouri,” December 1839–October 1840
Martin Van Buren Lithograph by Philip Haas. (Courtesy Library of Congress.)
- Gender
- Male