Martin Van Buren

Age:  54 years
old        Wife:  Hannah Hoes Van Buren

Political Party:
Democrat

Term(s) as President:
1837-1841

Home State:  Born: On December 5,
1782 in Columbia,
New York

Notes:

Father of the Democratic Party

Loved the good life, aristocratic want-a-be.  Gold fixtures in the

Executive
Mansion.

Wore a corset – rode in a fancy carriage

Panic of 1837 & 1839 – Economic crisis caused by Jackson’s war on the Bank of the United States. – unemployment
– bankruptcy – severe economic depression.

Caused by collapse in Cotton Market

-straddled the fence on many issues