Martin van buren brief biography of albert
December 5: Born in Kinderhook, New York, the third of five children of Maria Hoes Van Alen and Abraham Van Buren, five days after the preliminary articles of the Treaty of Paris are signed, making Van Buren the first U.S. president not born a British subject. Abraham Van Buren elected Kinderhook’s first town clerk since independence. Leaves the local village school, possibly.