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he accused Pike of continuing his sticky-fingered career in Arkansas with the theft of some otter skins in Van Buren.
Outraged, he used the Advocate of March 7th for a denial, sending immediately to Santa Fe and Van Buren for documents to vindicate himself, and demanding that Woodruff reveal the name of this perfidious slanderer who disguised himself under a pastoral pseudonym.
Johnson supported Martin Van Buren and early on expressed an interest in the public lands, eventually being considered a father of the Homestead Act of 1862.
In the presidential election in 1848, the Democratic Party split over the slavery issue, with the abolitionists leaving the party and forming the Free Soil Party, and making Martin Van Buren their nominee.
* Van Buren, Raeburn, Abbie an ' Slats — 2 volumes ( 1983 ) Ken Pierce Books
* 1782 – Martin Van Buren, President of the United States ( d. 1862 )
For example, in Shadowrun, a tactical nuclear device was detonated near FASA's offices at 1026 W. Van Buren St in Chicago, Illinois.
Ten governors have been major-party candidates for president, and six-including Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt-have won.
In contrast, Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren instigated the policy of Indian removal to the west ( i. e. the Trail of Tears ).
Thus, it has been suggested that Adams is the only major figure in American history who knew both the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln, though Martin Van Buren knew Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and his mentor Aaron Burr and met the young Lincoln while on a campaign trip through Illinois.
Under President Martin Van Buren, the government argued the Africans should be deported for having mutinied and killed officers on the ship.
However, with support from Polk and his cabinet, Van Buren chose to stick with the Specie Circular.
In the presidential election of 1840, Van Buren was overwhelmingly defeated by a popular Whig, William Henry Harrison.
The leading contender for the presidential nomination was former President Martin Van Buren, who wanted to stop the expansion of slavery.
Van Buren opposed the annexation but in doing so lost the support of many Democrats, including former President Andrew Jackson, who still had much influence.
Van Buren won a simple majority on the convention's first ballot but did not attain the two-thirds supermajority required for nomination.
When it became clear after another six ballots that Van Buren would not win the required majority, Polk emerged as a " dark horse " candidate.
Even with this support, Polk instructed his managers at the convention to support Van Buren if he could win the nomination.
This assured that if a deadlocked convention occurred, initial supporters of Van Buren would pick Polk as a compromise candidate for the Democrats.
* 1832 – President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
*" Old Kinderhook ", a name applied to U. S. President Martin Van Buren
By 1837, after Van Buren had become president, banks were clearly in trouble.
However, he was opposed to the idea of converting atheism into a new form of religion or theology, and cited many " new theologians " such as William Hamilton, Paul Van Buren, Thomas Altizer and Gabriel Vahanian, who promoted this error:
Martin Van Buren ( ; December 5, 1782July 24, 1862 ) was the eighth President of the United States ( 1837 – 1841 ).

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Polk worked for Jackson's policies as speaker, and Van Buren's when he succeeded Jackson in 1837 ; he appointed committees with Democratic chairs and majorities, including the New York radical C. C. Cambreleng as Chair of the Ways and Means Committee, although he maintained the facade of traditional bipartisanship.
Van Buren outlived his four immediate successors as President ( William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor ).
This election was unique in that electors cast votes for four men who had been or would become President of the United States: current President Martin Van Buren ; President-elect William Henry Harrison ; Vice-President-elect John Tyler, who would succeed Harrison upon his death ; and James K. Polk, who received one electoral vote for Vice President, and who would succeed Tyler come 1845.
However, midway through Polk ’ s term, Democratic dissatisfaction with the administration was growing within the Martin Van Buren, or Barnburner, wing of the Democratic Party over other issues.
While Welles dutifully supported James K. Polk in the 1844 election, he would abandon the Democrats in 1848 to support Van Buren's Freesoil campaign.
Due to the dominance of the then Democratic Party of Van Buren, Polk, and Buchanan the American School was not embraced as the economic philosophy of the United States until the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, who with a series of laws during the American Civil War was able to fully implement what Hamilton, Clay, List, and Carey theorized, wrote about, and advocated.
The journal supported Martin Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election ( he lost ) and James K. Polk in the 1844 election ( he won ).
In Washington as congressman's wife during the administrations of John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren, Mrs. Polk very much enjoyed her social duties.
The term " dark horse candidate " was coined at the 1844 Democratic National Convention, at which little-known Tennessee politician James K. Polk emerged as the candidate after the failure of the leading candidates — former President Martin Van Buren and Senator Lewis Cass — to secure the necessary two-thirds majority.
At the Democratic nominating convention a month later, however, Van Buren was unable to secure his party's nomination, and the Democrats instead nominated James K. Polk, who strongly favored annexation.
The park also incorporates the Aquatic Park Historic District, bounded by Van Ness Avenue, Polk Street, and Hyde Street.
After swinging northeast and back north to the east side of Van Ness Avenue ( continuing as a double-decked structure between Van Ness Ave. and Polk Street ), a pair of ramps would split to the east, taking downtown traffic to and from the one-way pair of Bush and Pine Streets.
In the original 1955 plan, it was planned to extend the Central Freeway as a double decked structure between Van Ness Ave. and Polk Street north to Clay Street, then as a single deck depressed freeway north to Broadway, where it would have tunneled under Russian Hill to connect with Interstate 480.
In 1844, Donelson was instrumental in helping James K. Polk win the Democratic presidential nomination over Martin Van Buren and other more notable candidates.

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Van Buren faced opposition for the vice-presidency within his own party, however, and as a result all 30 Pennsylvania electors cast ballots for native son William Wilkins.
In the quarter finals, Van Basten faced fellow Dutchman Guus Hiddink's Russia.
His son Minh Mang was then faced with the Le Van Khoi revolt, when native Christians and their European clergy tried to overthrow him and install a grandson of Gia Long who had converted to Roman Catholicism.
The following night on the March 31, 2003 episode of Raw, Storm and Morley faced Kane and Rob Van Dam and The Dudley Boyz in a 3-Way Elimination match, dropping the titles to Kane and Rob Van Dam.
At Hardcore Heaven, Van Dam faced his rival Sabu once again, in a match to prove who was the better man.
Van Dam and Dreamer faced each other in a hardcore match at Born to Be Wired, won by Van Dam after he performed a leg drop on Dreamer with a trashcan.
At Ultimate Jeopardy, Van Dam and Sabu faced Dreamer and Taz, a match won by Taz and Dreamer after Dreamer pinned Van Dam.
At November to Remember, Van Dam faced Dreamer in another flag match which went to a no contenst.
At Better Than Ever, Van Dam and Sabu faced Dreamer and Taz in a rematch.
Instead, Van Dam faced D-Von Dudley in a singles match and as a result of losing the match, Van Dam also lost the Tag Team Title to the Dudleyz.
At Anarchy Rulz, Van Dam faced Rhino for the ECW World Television Championship but was screwed when a heel referee made a fast count during a pinfall attempt made by Rhino.
At Survivor Series on November 18, Van Dam and four other Alliance members faced five WWF wrestlers in a Winner Take All match.
Van Dam started feuding with the World Heavyweight Champion Triple H. On the September 16 episode of Raw, Van Dam lost the Intercontinental title to Chris Jericho after interference by Triple H. At Unforgiven, Van Dam faced Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship.
On the November 25 episode of Raw, Van Dam faced Michaels for the World Heavyweight Championship.
On the August 18 episode of Raw, Van Dam faced the Intercontinental Champion Christian for the title, but Kane interfered in the match and knocked Van Dam out after hitting him with a chair.
On the September 15 episode of Raw, Van Dam faced Jericho in a number one contender's match for the title.
Van Dam entered into a rivalry with Chris Jericho in October 2003, and the two faced each other in several tag team matches.

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