Partly printed DS as president, signed “M. Van Buren,” one page, 20.25 x 16.25, April 30, 1839. A four-language ship’s papers issued to Albert ...., “master or commander of the..... called....... … lying at present in the port of New Bedford, bound for Atlantic Ocean and laden with Provisions, Stores, and Utensils for a whaling voyage….” Countersigned by John Forsyth as secretary of state. The embossed paper seal remains intact at center.Fine condition. The signature is clean and dark.
Martin Van Buren was an American statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. A founder of the Democratic Party, he had previously served as the ninth governor of New York, the tenth United States secretary of state, and the eighth vice president of the United States. He won the 1836 presidential election with the endorsement of popular outgoing President Andrew Jackson and the organizational strength of the Democratic Party. He lost his 1840 reelection bid to Whig Party nominee William Henry Harrison, thanks in part to the poor economic conditions surrounding the Panic of 1837. Later in his life, Van Buren emerged as an elder statesman and, despite prior opposition, an important anti-slavery abolitionist leader who led the Free Soil Party ticket in the presidential election of 1848.
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