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- [S34] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Andrew Jackson BIRTH 15 Mar 1767 Waxhaw, Union County, North Carolina, USA DEATH 8 Jun 1845 (aged 78) Hermitage, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA BURIAL Jackson Family Cemetery Hermitage, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA MEMORIAL ID 534.
7th United States President. When he threw his hat in the ring and decided to run for the presidency, Andrew Jackson the "Hero of New Orleans" was the most popular man in the country and even received a "favorite son" endorsement from Tennessee delegates. Detractors had a field day after his marriage to Rachel Donelson seizing on a marriage technicality to tarnish both their images. He was born to poverty stricken Scottish-Irish immigrants literally on the border between North and South Carolina. His father died in a logging accident before his birth and his mother raised the family alone. He joined the Continental Army as a courier at age thirteen. Andrew was taken prisoner by the British. Because of his ill treatment, Jackson harbored a bitter resentment towards the British until his death. With his mother and both brothers deceased, Andrew was a complete orphan at the age of fourteen. He was apprenticed to a saddle maker. Still a young man, he went to the territory of Tennessee achieving prominence as a lawyer, became a judge and was the owner of a moderate sized plantation. When Tennessee became a state, he became a member of the US House of Representatives, then elected Senator. He sought and won the position of Major General of the Tennessee militia. He led troops against the Indians in both the Creek War and the First Seminole War. During the War of 1812, he gave the Americans a much needed victory at New Orleans giving the country a moral boost just after Washington was burned by the British. To win the presidency, Jackson defeated Adams for his first term and then defeated Clay to claim a second term. Rachel Jackson died a few weeks before her husband's inauguration and Jackson blamed her early death on stress caused by detractors zeroing in on their supposed immorality of his marriage. The new President believed in a strong presidency and a strong Union. This belief brought him into open opposition with Southern legislators. In order to clear millions of acres of land from Indians, he signed the Indian Removal Act which gave them land west of the Mississippi in exchange for land east of the river. During his administration Arkansas and Michigan were admitted to the Union. He survived an assassination attempt fending off his attacker with his cane. After leaving the Whitehouse, he retired to his home near Nashville which he and Rachel had named The Hermitage. From a small cabin it was expanded, remodeled and rebuilt into a spacious plantation house. Jackson's health deteriorated acerbated by a bullet lodged near his heart received in a duel but never removed. He died at the Hermitage reaching the age of 77. Thousands attended his funeral. Burial was beside Rachel in a tomb he had designed and constructed. Visiting her grave each evening was one of Jackson's daily rituals in his declining years. Andrew and Rachel Jackson did not have any children but adopted a nephew of Rachel and gave him the name of Andrew Jackson, Jr. The plantation was willed to him but his debts forced the sale of the property to the State of Tennessee. The Hermitage today is open to the public, restored and is an historic site. The two disputed birthplaces: The Andrew Jackson State Park, Lancaster South Carolina: The 360 acre park has a historic marker, also a bronze sculpture recognizing the spot. Waxhaws, North Carolina: Located just across the state border from the Andrew Jackson State Park has a restored house and a historic marker. Washington DC has a huge bronze equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson cast from a bronze cannon captured in his last campaign against the Spanish. It has graced Lafayette Park since 1853.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/534/andrew-jackson
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- [S1850] Wikipedia: Andrew Jackson, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson.
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means. During the American Revolutionary War Jackson, whose family supported the revolutionary cause, acted as a courier. He was captured, at age 13, and mistreated by his British captors. He later became a lawyer. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and then to the U.S. Senate. In 1801, Jackson was appointed colonel in the Tennessee militia, which became his political as well as military base. Jackson owned hundreds of slaves who worked on the Hermitage plantation which he acquired in 1804. He killed a man in a duel in 1806, over a matter of honor regarding his wife Rachel. Jackson gained national fame through his role in the War of 1812, most famously where he won a decisive victory over the ma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
- [S1850] Wikipedia: Andrew Jackson, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson.
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means. During the American Revolutionary War Jackson, whose family supported the revolutionary cause, acted as a courier. He was captured, at age 13, and mistreated by his British captors. He later became a lawyer. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and then to the U.S. Senate. In 1801, Jackson was appointed colonel in the Tennessee militia, which became his political as well as military base. Jackson owned hundreds of slaves who worked on the Hermitage plantation which he acquired in 1804. He killed a man in a duel in 1806, over a matter of honor regarding his wife Rachel. Jackson gained national fame through his role in the War of 1812, most famously where he won a decisive victory over the main British invasion army at the Battle of New Orleans. Jackson's army was then sent to Florida where he deposed the small Spanish garrison. This led directly to the treaty which formally transferred Florida from Spain to the United States. Nominated for president in 1824, Jackson narrowly lost to John Quincy Adams. Jackson's supporters then founded what became the Democratic Party. Nominated again in 1828, Jackson crusaded against Adams and the "corrupt bargain" between Adams and Henry Clay he said cost him the 1824 election. Building on his base in the West and new support from Virginia and New York, he won by a landslide. The Adams campaigners called him and his wife Rachel Jackson "bigamists"; she died just after the election and he called the slanderers "murderers," swearing never to forgive them. His struggles with Congress were personified in his personal rivalry with Clay, whom Jackson deeply disliked, and who led the opposition (the emerging Whig Party). As president, he faced a threat of secession from South Carolina over the "Tariff of Abominations" which Congress had enacted under Adams. In contrast to several of his immediate successors, he denied the right of a state to secede from the union, or to nullify federal law. The Nullification Crisis was defused when the tariff was amended and Jackson threatened the use of military force if South Carolina (or any other state) attempted to secede. Congress attempted to reauthorize the Second Bank of the United States several years before the expiration of its charter, which he opposed. He vetoed the renewal of its charter in 1832, and dismantled it by the time its charter expired in 1836. Jackson's presidency marked the beginning of the ascendancy of the "spoils system" in American politics. Also, he supported, signed, and enforced the Indian Removal Act, which relocated a number of native tribes to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). He faced and defeated Henry Clay in the 1832 Presidential Election, and opposed Clay generally. Jackson supported his vice president Martin Van Buren, who was elected president in 1836. He worked to bolster the Democratic Party and helped his friend James K. Polk win the 1844 presidential election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
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