Former President Martin Van Buren died due to an affection of the chest through long-term serious illness. The former president died on Thursday, July 24, 1862 at 2 AM at age 79. Martin Van Buren's health had been having issues and declining for a year before his death. Martin Van Buren was born in Kinderhood, Columbia County to Abraham Van Buren and Maria Hoes Van Buren.
Martin Van Buren died of bronchial asthma and heart failure in 1862 at the age of 79. The former president had not been in the best of health for some time and had been bedridden with pneumonia the previous winter. Nevertheless, Van Buren had generally enjoyed quite robust health since leaving office over twenty years earlier. One has to remember that life expectancy in those days was a lot lower than it is today, and so for someone to reach the age of 79 was well above expectations.
Van Buren also outlived all four of his immediate successors: William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James Knox Polk, and Zachary Taylor. Even so, he is still by no means one of the longest lived presidents.
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