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Andrew Jackson: Man
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Shortly after Jackson first arrived in Nashville in 1788, he took up residence 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. Shortly after their separation, Robards sent word that he had obtained a divorce. Trusting that the divorce was complete, Jackson and Rachel were married in 1791.
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In 1791, Jackson married Rachel Donelson Robards. Both he and Rachel believed that she was legally divorced at the time. But the divorce decree was not granted until two years later, and they were remarried early in 1794. Jackson was devoted to his wife and furiously resented any gossip about the marriage. In 1806 an insulting comment about Rachel led to a duel between Jackson and a fellow attorney, Charles Dickinson, in which Jackson was wounded and Dickinson was killed. Jackson's hot temper would involve him in many such duels.
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Biographer Robert V. Remini said that Jefferson "had no great love for Jackson." Daniel Webster wrote that Jefferson told him in December of 1824 that Jackson was a dangerous man unfit for the presidency.[15] Historian Sean Wilentz described Webster's account of the meeting as "not wholly reliable."[16]
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Jackson returned to the Hermitage in early 1837. Many still considered him a hero and the spokesman of the common man. He spent the remainder of his years in retirement, consulting with numerous politicians on the issues of the day, entertaining frequent visitors, and managing his farm. His health, much damaged by dueling wounds and the rigors of military campaigns, continued to decline. In 1845, at age seventy-eight, Jackson died at the Hermitage and was buried in the Hermitage garden two days later.
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Until recently, Jackson was rarely considered a man with any coherent political views. Most accounts treated him as a confused, opportunistic, and inconsistent politician. Jackson, to be sure, had no formal political philosophy, but he adhered to certain underlying values and ideas with a degree of consistency throughout his long political career.
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