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Significant Acts
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Recommended the creation of the Independent Treasury System to store and disperse federal funds, which was adopted by Congress in 1840.
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Continued to support a war with the Seminole people begun during the administration of President Andrew Jackson.
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Sent Major General Winfield Scott to keep the peace with Great Britain in several skirmishes along the Canadian border.
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Limited the workday to ten hours on federal public works projects.
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Career
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1813-1820 Served in the New York state senate.
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1816-1819 Held appointment as attorney general for the state of New York.
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1821-1829 Represented New York in the U.S. Senate.
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January 1829-March 1829 Served as governor of New York.
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1829-1831 Served as secretary of state under Andrew Jackson.
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1833-1837 Vice president of the United States under Andrew Jackson.
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1837-1841 President of the United States.
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1848 Ran unsuccessfully for president on the Free-Soil Party ticket.
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Did You Know
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Van Buren was called the 'Little Magician' and the 'Red Fox of Kinderhook' because he was a wily politician.
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Van Buren established the first state-wide political machine, known as the 'Albany Regency,' in New York.
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A political faction headed by Van Buren eventually became the Democratic Party.
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