Vice President: Richard M. Johnson Secretary of State: John Forsyth Secretary of the Treasury: Levi Woodbury Secretary of War: Joel R. Poinsett Attorney General: Benjamin F. Butler; Felix Grundy (from September 1838); Henry D. Gilpin (from January 1840)
Postmaster General: Amos Kendall; John M.
Niles (from May 1840)
Secretary of the Navy: Mahlon Dickerson;
James K. Paulding (from July 1838) Supreme Court Appointments: John Catron (1837); John McKinley (1837); Peter V. Daniel (1841)
Father: Abraham Van Buren (1737-1817) Mother: Maria Hoes Van Alen Van Buren (1747-1817)
Wife: Hannah Hoes (1783-1819)
Marriage: February 21, 1807
Children: Abraham (1807-1873); John (1810-1866); Martin (1812-1855); Smith Thompson (1817-1876)
Martin Van Buren was the first president born in the United States (all previous ones having been born in the British colonies prior to American independence).
The term O. K. was popularized because of Van Buren. His hometown of Kinderhook, New York, was sometimes referred to as Old Kinderhook, and as a result organizations that formed to support his candidacy in 1840 were named O. K. Clubs. O. K. meaning “all correct,” however, appeared as a slang term shortly before the Van Burenites adopted it.
A heating system was installed in the White House during Van Buren’s presidency.
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