General informationAndrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
President order: 7
Democrat
Born in South Carolina
Sworn in on 3/4/1829
Age at inauguration: 61
2 terms

Biography

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 British at the Battle of New Orleans (1815) and the Creek Indians at the Battle
 of Horseshoe Bend (1814) A polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the
 1820s and 1830s, he destroyed the national bank and relocated most Indian tribes to the west.
 His enthusiastic followers created the modern Democratic Party, and the 1830-1850 period later 
became known as the era of Jacksonian democracy.


Early life:
Jackson was born on March 15, 1767. His parents were Presbyterian Scotch-Irish colonists 
Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier.
Jackson's father was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, in Ireland around 1738.The house 
that Jackson's parents lived in, in the village of Boneybefore in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 
is now preserved as the Andrew Jackson Centre and is open to the public.

Marriage and family:
Shortly after Jackson first arrived in Nashville in 1788, he lived as a boarder with Rachel 
Stockley Donelson, the widow of John Donelson. Here Jackson became acquainted with their daughter,
 Rachel Donelson Robards. At the time, Rachel Robards was in an unhappy marriage with Captain Lewis
 Robards, a man subject to irrational fits of jealous rage. Due to Lewis Robards' temperament, the 
two were separated in 1790. According to Jackson, he married Rachel after hearing that Robards had 
obtained a divorce. However, the divorce had never been completed, making Rachel's marriage to
 Jackson technically bigamous and therefore invalid. After the divorce was officially completed, 
Rachel and Jackson remarried in 1794. To complicate matters further, evidence shows that Donelson 
had been living with Jackson and referred to herself as Mrs. Jackson before the petition for divorce 
was ever made.It was not uncommon on the frontier for relationships to be formed and dissolved 
unofficially, as long as they were recognized by the community.

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Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States, from 1829-1837.
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Andrew Jackson , U.S. President Born: 15 March 1767 Birthplace: Waxhaw, South Carolina Died: 
8 June 1845 Best Known As: President of the United
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