Martin Van Buren Wrote Autobiography
Martin Van Buren retired and didn't run for office again after the 1848 presidential election. He yet persisted in paying close attention to national politics. He declared his backing for the Union and Abraham Lincoln when the American Civil War broke out in 1861.
Late in 1861, Van Buren's health started to deteriorate, and pneumonia confined him to bed. On July 24, 1862, at his Lindenwald home in Kinderhook, Martin Van Buren passed away from bronchial asthma and heart failure. Age-wise, he was 79. The Martin Van Buren National Historic Site is presently located in his former house in Kinderhook. In addition to towns and counties, a ship, a mountain, three state parks, and many others bear his name. One of the interesting facts about Martin Van Buren is he has an autobiography named The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren. Posthumously, this book was released.
Van Buren's autobiography, which was first published in 1876 and included 776 pages, chronicled his life up to 1834—three years before he was elected president. Despite the fact that his wife, Hanna Hoes Van Buren, passed away from TB in 1819, she was not mentioned in the book. The White House's website justifies Van Buren's exclusion from bringing her up in any speeches by noting that “a gentleman of that day would not humiliate a woman by public remarks”.
