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New Yorker in Chief

  • October 26, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Martin Van Buren, the eighth U.S. President, was the first to be born a U.S. citizen, the first from New York, and the first not of British descent: His parents were Dutch. He lost his 1840 reelection bid and lost again in 1848, running on the anti-slavery Free-Soil Party ticket.

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