Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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... Martin Van Buren and William L. Marcy . Although an extreme Demo- cratic partisan , his ready humor and instinctive generosity made him the chief of a considerable following . Few men surpassed him in private conversation or public ...
... Martin Van Buren and William L. Marcy . Although an extreme Demo- cratic partisan , his ready humor and instinctive generosity made him the chief of a considerable following . Few men surpassed him in private conversation or public ...
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John Wien Forney. at Kinderhook Landing , New York , about thirteen years after Martin Van Buren , who was born December 5 , 1782 , and whose fast friend he was to the day of his death ; the younger at Deerfield , an agricultural town in ...
John Wien Forney. at Kinderhook Landing , New York , about thirteen years after Martin Van Buren , who was born December 5 , 1782 , and whose fast friend he was to the day of his death ; the younger at Deerfield , an agricultural town in ...
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... Martin Van Buren lived and moved , alike at Albany , Kinder- hook , and Washington , while he was respectively United States Senator , Governor of New York , United States Secretary of State , Vice - President , and President , Benjamin ...
... Martin Van Buren lived and moved , alike at Albany , Kinder- hook , and Washington , while he was respectively United States Senator , Governor of New York , United States Secretary of State , Vice - President , and President , Benjamin ...
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... Martin Van Buren ; but especially as the hero who is said to have killed Tecumseh , and as a Representative and Senator in Congress from 1815 to 1829. At the national capital , from 1829 to 1845 , he was the most trenchant and in ...
... Martin Van Buren ; but especially as the hero who is said to have killed Tecumseh , and as a Representative and Senator in Congress from 1815 to 1829. At the national capital , from 1829 to 1845 , he was the most trenchant and in ...
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... Martin Van Buren , who carried the State , though Harrison was elected President . In 1843 he was elected to Congress , and stayed in the House till 1847 , when he was chosen a Senator in Congress , and remained there without a rival ...
... Martin Van Buren , who carried the State , though Harrison was elected President . In 1843 he was elected to Congress , and stayed in the House till 1847 , when he was chosen a Senator in Congress , and remained there without a rival ...
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