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Martin Van Buren was a lawyer president who assumed the role of peacemaker. Unlike Andrew Jackson, he didn't want a war in the southwest. He patiently used diplomacy to work out an agreement with the Mexican government to go into arbitration over US claims against it. He refused Texas annexation unless it could be worked out in a way that kept Mexican and the United States on friendly diplomatic terms.

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