Martin Van Buren Hand Signed Autograph - 8th United States President
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:26798809 | President: Martin Van Buren |
| Original/Reproduction: Original | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
| Signed: Yes | Signed by: Martin Van Buren |
| Industry: Presidential |
Martin Van Buren Hand Signed Autograph - 8th United States President. Condition is "Used". Shipped with USPS First Class.Attention U.S. Presidential autograph collectors! For auction:President: Martin Van BurenType: official presidential document cut dated May 24, 1839 signed by President Van Buren AND HIS SECRETARY OF STATE, JOHN FORSYTH, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Size: 5 x 8”Condition: heavy parchment paper has smudging (see photo); age toning; tape on bottom and top edge (not... sticky) and upper right corner (slightly sticky); dealer notations on reverse. Authentication: although we have not found a receipt of purchase or COA, we have no reason to doubt the authenticity of this signature.Notes: we are in the process of listing the estate of an autograph collector. This autograph was likely purchased in the 1960s from a reputable dealer. We encourage your participation in the bidding process by starting at a low price. Please see our many other original autographs listed on eBay. I combine shipping!From Wikipedia: “Martin Van Buren (/væn ˈbjʊərən/ van BEWR-ən; born Maarten Van Buren Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmaːrtə(n) fan ˈbyːrə(n)]; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was an American statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. A founder of the Democratic Party, he had previously served as the ninth governor of New York, the tenth United States secretary of state, and the eighth vice president of the United States. He won the 1836 presidential election with the endorsement of popular outgoing President Andrew Jackson and the organizational strength of the Democratic Party. He lost his 1840 reelection bid to Whig Party nominee William Henry Harrison, thanks in part to the poor economic conditions surrounding the Panic of 1837. Later in his life, Van Buren emerged as an elder statesman and an important anti-slavery abolitionist leader who led the Free Soil Party ticket in the presidential election of 1848.Van Buren was born into a family of Dutch Americans in Kinderhook, New York; he was the first President to have been born after the American Revolution—in which his father served as a Patriot—and is the only President to speak English as a second language. Trained as a lawyer, he quickly became involved in politics as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, and won a seat in the New York State Senate, and then in the United States Senate in 1821. As the leader of the Bucktails faction, Van Buren emerged as the most influential politician from New York in the 1820s and established a political machine known as the Albany Regency. Following the 1824 presidential election, Van Buren led to re-establish a two-party system with partisan differences based on ideology rather than personalities or sectional differences; he supported Jackson's candidacy in the 1828 presidential election with this goal in mind. He ran successfully for Governor of New York in order to support Jackson's campaign, but resigned shortly after Jackson was inaugurated so he could accept appointment as Jackson's Secretary of State.In his cabinet position, Van Buren became a key Jackson advisor, and built the organizational structure for the coalescing Democratic Party. He ultimately resigned to help resolve the Petticoat affair, and briefly served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom. At Jackson's behest, the 1832 Democratic National Convention nominated Van Buren for Vice President of the United States, and he took office after the Democratic ticket won the 1832 presidential election. With Jackson's strong support, Van Buren won the presidential nomination at the 1835 Democratic National Convention, and he defeated several Whig opponents in the 1836 presidential election. However, his presidency soon eroded with his response to the Panic of 1837, which centered on his Independent Treasury system, a plan under which the Federal government of the United States would store its funds in vaults rather than in banks; more conservative Democrats and Whigs in Congress ultimately delayed his plan from being implemented until 1840. His presidency was further marred by the costly Second Seminole War (a result of continuing Jackson's Indian removal policy); and his refusal to admit Texas to the Union as a slave state, done as an attempt to avoid heightened sectional tensions. In 1840, a surge of new voters—who nicknamed him "Martin Van Ruin"—helped turn him out of office.Van Buren was initially the leading candidate for the Democratic party's nomination again in 1844, but his continued opposition to the annexation of Texas angered Southern Democrats, leading to the nomination of James K. Polk. Van Buren led a third-party ticket in 1848, and his candidacy most likely helped Whig nominee Zachary Taylor defeat Democrat Lewis Cass. Van Buren returned to the Democrats after 1848, but grew increasingly opposed to slavery, and became one of the party's outspoken abolitionists. He supported Abraham Lincoln's policies during the American Civil War. He died in Kinderhook in July 1862, at age 79.In historical rankings, historians and political scientists often rank Van Buren as an average or below-average U.S. president, due to his handling of the Panic of 1837. However, Van Buren is largely regarded today as a leader in the formation of the two-party system in the United States.”
