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Andrew Jackson: House Ways
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John Q. Adams defeats Andrew Jackson for Presidency – Jackson has plurality of the popular vote and a plurality of the Electoral College vote, but loses in the House of Representatives. Jacksonians decry the “corrupt bargain” that gave Adams the presidency.
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During the years that Andrew Jackson lived in Tennessee he showed his thrift by purchasing large tracts of land and selling off small farms to settlers. In this way he made a great deal of money and became what people then thought to be rich.
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Andrew Jackson memorabilia, including pictures, jerseys and other personal items, were displayed around the Chaska Community Center rink during a hockey game played in his memory on Friday. Jackson died in an accident Dec. 1 on the way to play in a game for Purdue University’s hockey club team.
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Ironically, this portrait, while not as personally flattering to Jackson, in reality grants him more importance -- for, if nothing else, the poor example he set -- than does the naive "Champion of the People" caricature. Considering the overwhelming affection scholars have shown Jackson, it perhaps is unsurprising to note that Old Hickory remains a fixture on most historians' lists of great presidents. Nearly all the so-called great presidents routinely named by U.S. historians were imperial presidents to one degree or another, consolidating authority in the executive and treating the letter of the Constitution as a suggestion rather than a command. The only imperial presidents routinely omitted from the "top 10" lists are those like Richard Nixon -- those who abused the power of the White House and got caught.
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From the outset, Jackson looked for advice from friends and associates not necessarily in the cabinet. He asked William B. Lewis, who held a job in the Treasury Department, to live in the White House, and he retained his nephew Andrew Jackson Donelson as his private secretary, while Donelson's wife, Emily, served as White House hostess. More significantly, he gave special attention to a Kentucky editor and former relief leader named Amos Kendall, who landed an appointment as an auditor in the Treasury Department. In December 1830, Kendall was joined among Jackson's close advisers by another Kentucky relief man, Francis Preston Blair, who arrived to edit the Globe. Along with Van Buren, the two Kentuckians constituted Jackson's inner circle of advisers, though others would from time to time join them.
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In 1796 Jackson assisted in framing the constitution of Tennessee. From December 1796 to March 17 9 7 he represented that state in the Federal House of Representatives, where he distinguished himself as an irreconcilable opponent of President Washington, and was one of the twelve representatives who voted against the address to him by the House. In 1797 he was elected a United States senator; but he resigned in the following year. He was judge of the supreme court of Tennessee from 1798 to 1804. In 1804-1805 he contracted a friendship with Aaron Burr; and at the latter's trial in 1807 Jackson was one of his conspicuous champions. Up to the time of his nomination for the presidency, the biographer of Jackson finds nothing to record but military exploits in which he displayed perseverance, energy and skill of a very high order, and a succession of personal acts in which he showed himself ignorant, violent, perverse, quarrelsome and astonishingly indiscreet.
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