Location. 42° 24.202′ N, 73° 42.156′ W. Marker is in Kinderhook, New York, in Columbia County. Marker is on Albany Avenue (County Route 21), on the right when traveling west. Marker is located at the entrance to the Kinderhook Dutch Reformed Cemetery. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Kinderhook NY 12106, United States of America. Touch for directions.
. (Submitted on November 2, 2010, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.)
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, November 1, 2010
2. Marker in Kinderhook
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, November 1, 2010
3. Marker in Kinderhook Dutch Reformed Cemetery
The marker is seen here from inside the cemetery.
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, November 1, 2010
4. Van Buren Grave
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, November 1, 2010
5. Gravestone Inscription
Martin Van Buren VIIIth President of the United States Born Dec. 5, 1782. Died July 24, 1862. ---------- Hannah Van Buren His wife Born March 8, 1783. Died at Albany, N.Y. Feb. 6, 1819.
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, August 9, 2015
6. Martin Van Buren
This 1864 portrait of Martin Van Buren by Georege P. A. Healy hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, on loan from the White House.
“Martin Van Buren's genius as a backroom strategist earned him the nickname of ‘Little Magician.’ But when he succeeded to the White House following his tenure as Andrew Jackson's vice president, the gift for orchestration that he had enlisted to promote Jackson's cause proved of little use in advancing his own. At the heart of the problem was an economic depression that persisted through most of his term and for which he was blamed. Damaging him further was a taste for the finer things of life, which led critics to portray him as indifferent to the country's suffering. Van Buren's reputation has improved, however, and today he is often lauded for his evenhanded foreign policy and landmark support for limiting the hours of workers on public projects.
This was one of the first likenesses that the White House acquired under an 1857 congressional act authorizing the purchase of presidential portraits. The artist named to do the work in the legislation was George P. A. Healy, one of mid-nineteenth-century America's most popular portraitists.
Photographed By Scott Sather, October 21, 2009
7. Cemetery Sign
Photographed By Steve Stoessel, July 16, 2023
8. Martin Van Buren Gravesite Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on August 11, 2023. It was originally submitted on November 2, 2010, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 1,221 times since then and 65 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on November 2, 2010, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. 6. submitted on September 26, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. 7. submitted on July 26, 2016, by Scott Sather of Salem, Oregon. 8. submitted on July 16, 2023, by Steve Stoessel of Niskayuna, New York.