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Andrew Jackson was born 160 miles
northwest of Charlestown, South Carolina on March 15, 1767 in
the Waxhaw District. Jackson's unknown-but-seemingly-nice Father
died and was buried before Andrew Jackson was even born. Since
his mother, could not support herself AND her three children,
she closed down the farm and moved in with the Crawfords. Hey,
look how lucky she is! Just kidding! Now she has to take care
of eight Crawford children AND her three children! How dreadful!
Anyway Andrew's mother, Elizabeth, wanted Andrew to grow up to
be a Presbyterian minister, but Andrew didn't want to be one
though. Andy was " mischievous and hot-tempered. He delighted
in frightening and bullying other children. He preferred the
wild and reckless freedom of fighting and playing. This inattention
to his studies later gained him a reputation as one of the most
poorly educated of American Presidents."At age thirteen, Andrew and Robert
joined the "mounted militia" only one year after Andrew's
brother, Hugh, went to battle. Immediately after the battle,
however, Hugh died from excessive heat and fatigue. "It
is said that Andrew angrily refused to obey an order to clean
a British officer's boots. The officer struck Andrew with his
sword, cutting his left hand to the bone and badly injuring his
face and head. These scars remained for the rest of Jackson's
life." When Andrew was married, he was
married to a widow's daughter, Rachel, who was married to Roberts.
The marriage between Andrew and Rachel was accidentally illegal.
The cause: Rachel misunderstood a message that said that Roberts
had permission to sue Rachel for divorce. When Andrew heard that
Rachel had so-called been divorced, Andrew and Rachel got married.
But not long after they got married, they discovered that they
had not been married legally, and that Rachel and Roberts had
not been legally divorced. To fix the problem, they waited until
the divorce had been made final and then they remarried.In 1796, Andrew was elected as
Tennessee's first delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 1797, Andrew was elected to the U.S. Senate. In 1821, Andrew
was appointed first Gov. Of Florida territory.From 1823-1825, Andrew served
as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee and lost his Presidential campaign
to John Q. Adams.Finally, Andrew served as the
seventh President of the United States of America. When Andrew
ran for President, it was one of the hardest fought contests
in American Politics. During this contest Americans started using
slogans, rallies, buttons, banners, souvenirs and other things
designed to promote individual candidates and get people involved
in the race.Andrew first ran against Adams
and Clay, but lost. Then, Andrew ran against them a second time
and won. His vice-president was John C. Calhoun. |
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kept a stable of racing horses on the White House grounds.He
raised 11 children - none of them his won. |
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Stefoff. Presidents of the United States, Andrew Jackson,
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