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Martin Van Buren

1782 - 1862

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Martin Van Buren ( van BYOO-rən; Dutch: Maarten van Buren [ˈmaːrtə(ɱ) vɑm ˈbyːrə(n)] ; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was the eighth president of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841. A primary founder of the Democratic Party, he served as New York's attorney general and U.S. senator, then briefly as the ninth governor of New York before joining Andrew Jackson's administration as the tenth United States secretary of state, minister to the United Kingdom, and ultimately the eighth vice president from 1833 to 1837, after being elected on Jackson's ticket in 1832. Van Buren won the presidency in 1836 against divided Whig opponents. He lost re-election in 1840, and failed to win the Democratic nomination in 1844. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Van Buren is the 41st most popular politician (up from 43rd in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from United States (up from 17th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Politician.

The most famous thing Martin Van Buren is famous for is being the eighth president of the United States.

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Among politicians, Martin Van Buren ranks 41 out of 19,576. Before him are Edward VIII, Ulysses S. Grant, George III of the United Kingdom, Kim Il-sung, Constantine the Great, and David. After him are Joseph Goebbels, Narendra Modi, Hillary Clinton, Winston Churchill, Mao Zedong, and Otto von Bismarck.

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Among people born in 1782, Martin Van Buren ranks 1. After him are Niccolò Paganini, Friedrich Fröbel, Daoguang Emperor, Daniel Auber, John Field, Caroline Bonaparte, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Ivan Paskevich, Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, and Archduke John of Austria. Among people deceased in 1862, Martin Van Buren ranks 1. After him are Bahadur Shah Zafar, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Colt, John Tyler, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Fromental Halévy, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Božena Němcová, James Clark Ross, and Princess Maria Antonia Koháry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Van Buren ranks 16 out of 20,380. Before him are Pope Leo XIV (1955), William McKinley (1843), Al Pacino (1940), Sylvester Stallone (1946), Clint Eastwood (1930), and Ulysses S. Grant (1822). After him are Steve Jobs (1955), Hillary Clinton (1947), Marilyn Monroe (1926), Abraham Lincoln (1809), James K. Polk (1795), and Steven Spielberg (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Martin Van Buren ranks 7. Before him are Donald Trump (1946), Jimmy Carter (1924), Thomas Jefferson (1743), Andrew Jackson (1767), William McKinley (1843), and Ulysses S. Grant (1822). After him are Hillary Clinton (1947), Abraham Lincoln (1809), James K. Polk (1795), Ronald Reagan (1911), George Washington (1732), and John F. Kennedy (1917).

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