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Martin Van Buren was the first President born in the United States. |
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| Before becoming President in 1837, Van Buren served as Vice President under Andrew Jackson (who himself was born in 1767 in a territory disputed between the British colonies of North and South Carolina). Jackson's endorsement helped elevate Van Buren to the nation's highest office. However, his presidency was marked by a severe economic downturn, which sunk his bid for a second term. He was defeated in his campaign for reelection by William Henry Harrison, who was born in Virginia in 1773, making him the last U.S. President to come into the world a subject of the British Empire. | |
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English was Martin Van Buren's second language. | |||||||||
| Martin Van Buren may have been the first President born in the United States, but his first language wasn't English — it was Dutch. His family's roots in Kinderhook, New York, extended back before the nation's founding, and even before New York was a British colony. Van Buren could trace his heritage to Dutch immigrants who settled in the Kinderhook area in 1631, when New York was known as New Netherland. Even after control of the colony passed from the Dutch to the English, Kinderhook remained an overwhelmingly Dutch community, and the young Van Buren grew up speaking the Dutch language until he learned English in school, and became fluent in his teens. | |||||||||
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