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Van Buren lived for 21 years after he left the presidency. He ran for President on the Free Soil ticket in 1848 and picked up enough votes in his home state of NY to tip the state and the election to the Whig candidate Zachary Taylor. After that he spent his time in his 30-room mansion and one long visit to Europe where he was received by Queen Victoria, the Pope and other dignitaries. He was supposedly writing his memoirs but never got them into publishable form.

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