Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814), and the British at the Battle of New Orleans (1815). A polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s, as president he dismantled the Second Bank of the United States and initiated ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native American tribes from the Southeast to west of the Mississippi River. His enthusiastic followers created the modern Democratic Party. The 1830–1850 period later became known as the era of Jacksonian democracy.
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... The second inauguration of Andrew Jackson as the seventh President of the United States took place in the House chamber of the U.S ... The inauguration marked the commencement of the second four-year term of Andrew Jackson as President and the only four-year term of Martin Van Buren as Vice President ... Jackson was sworn in by Chief Justice John Marshall on a frigid day with snow still on the ground ...
25, 1828 death Campbell, John WilsonJohn Wilson Campbell Andrew Jackson 01829-03-07March 7, 1829 01833-09-24September 24, 1833 death Creighton, Jr. 01829-02-16February 16, 1829 nomination rejected by the Senate Tappan, BenjaminBenjamin Tappan Andrew Jackson 01833-10-12October 12, 1833 01834-05-29May 29, 1834 ... Leavitt Andrew Jackson 01834-06-30June 30, 1834 01855-02-10February 10, 1855 reassigned to Southern District of Ohio Term start Term end United States Attorney 1803 ... William McMillan 1803 1804 ...
... See also List of places named for Andrew Jackson Jackson's portrait appears on the United States twenty-dollar bill ... Jackson's image is on the Black Jack and many other postage stamps ... counties and cities are named after him, including Jacksonville, Florida and North Carolina Jackson, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee Jackson County, Florida ...
... Andrew Jackson referred to a charge that his "Mother.. ... as a slave in Carolina." Less specific was a rumor of Jackson having "colored blood", meaning having "Negro" ancestry this was unproven ... President Jackson's father was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, in current-day Northern Ireland, around 1738 ...
... The Boy of The Waxhaws (Andrew Jackson), by Anna Hyatt Huntington, Garrett Gardens, Columbia College, 1967 ... Hampton Lancaster The Boy of The Waxhaws (Andrew Jackson), by Anna Hyatt Huntington, Andrew Jackson State Park, 1967 ...
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“Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.”
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