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These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
This specific family group is a subset of the
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with more than one subset.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
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John Cantine (1735-1808) —
of Ulster
County, N.Y.
Born in Marbletown, Ulster
County, N.Y., October
20, 1735.
Member of New York
state assembly from Ulster County, 1777-78, 1779-81, 1783-85,
1786-89; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Ulster
County, 1788; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1789-97; member of New York
council of appointment, 1790; elected U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District 1801, but never took
office.
Died April
30, 1808 (age 72 years, 193
days).
Interment at Quick
Cemetery, Caroline, N.Y.
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Matthew Cantine —
of New York.
Born in Marbletown, Ulster
County, N.Y.
Delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1777.
Burial location unknown.
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Peter Cantine Jr. —
of Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Marbletown, Ulster
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly from Dutchess County, 1787-88; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1797-1801.
Burial location unknown.
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Moses I. Cantine (1774-1823) —
of Ulster
County, N.Y.
Born in Marbletown, Ulster
County, N.Y., January
18, 1774.
Member of New York
state assembly from Ulster County, 1799-1800; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1814-18.
Died June 24,
1823 (age 49 years, 157
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) —
also known as "The Little Magician"; "Old
Kinderhook"; "Red Fox of Kinderhook";
"Matty Van"; "American Talleyrand";
"Blue Whiskey Van" —
of Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y.; Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y., December
5, 1782.
Lawyer;
Columbia
County Surrogate, 1808-13; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1812-20; New York
state attorney general, 1815-19; appointed 1815; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1821-28; Governor of
New York, 1829; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1829-31; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1831-32; Vice
President of the United States, 1833-37; President
of the United States, 1837-41; defeated, 1840 (Democratic), 1848
(Free Soil); candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1844.
Christian
Reformed. Dutch
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died, reportedly due to asthma,
but more likely some kind of heart
failure, in Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y., July 24,
1862 (age 79 years, 231
days).
Interment at Kinderhook
Cemetery, Kinderhook, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Abraham Van Buren and Maria (Hoes) Van Alen Van Buren;
half-brother of James
Isaac Van Alen; married to the sister-in-law of Moses
I. Cantine; married, February
21, 1807, to Hannah Hoes; father of John
Van Buren; second cousin of Barent
Van Buren; second cousin twice removed of Dirck
Ten Broeck, Cornelis
Cuyler and Thomas
Brodhead Van Buren; second cousin thrice removed of Harold
Sheffield Van Buren; third cousin twice removed of Theodore
Roosevelt; fourth cousin of James
Livingston; fourth cousin once removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston and Peter
Gansevoort. |
|  | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Cantine
family of Marbletown, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | Cross-reference: Sanford
W. Smith — Jesse
Hoyt — Charles
Ogle |
|  | Van Buren
County, Ark., Van Buren
County, Iowa, Van Buren
County, Mich. and Van Buren
County, Tenn. are named for him. |
|  | The city
of Van
Buren, Arkansas, is named for
him. — The town
of Van
Buren, New York, is named for
him. — Mount
Van Buren, in Palmer
Land, Antarctica, is named for
him. — Martin Van Buren High
School (opened 1955), in Queens Village, Queens,
New York, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Martin Van Buren (built 1943 at Baltimore,
Maryland; torpedoed and lost 1944 in the North
Atlantic Ocean) was named for
him. |
|  | Other politicians named for him: M.
V. B. Edgerly
— M.
V. B. Jefferson
— M.
V. B. Bennett
— Van
B. Wisker
— Martin
V. B. Rowland
— Martin
V. B. Ives
— Martin
V. B. Clark
— Martin
V. Godbey
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|  | Opposition slogan (1840): "Van, Van, is
a used-up man." |
|  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
|  | Books about Martin Van Buren: Major L.
Wilson, The
Presidency of Martin Van Buren — Joel H. Silbey, Martin
Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular
Politics — Jerome Mushkat & Robert G. Rayback, Martin
Van Buren : Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican
Ideology — John Niven, Martin
Van Buren : The Romantic Age of American Politics —
Ted Widmer, Martin
Van Buren |
|  | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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