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Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States of America, elected as the "Hero of New Orleans" famous for crushing the British army in battle there. His nickname was "Old Hickory." Born in South Carolina but raised in Tennessee, Jackson was the first President ever elected who was not born in Virginia or Massachusetts. He fought at an early age in the battle of Stone Ferry during the American Revolution in 1780. He later fought against the Indians, and against the British during the War of 1812.
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Andrew Jackson was an American military and political leader and the seventh President of the United States. He was born on March 15, 1767, at Waxhaw, South Carolina. His father died a few days before Jackson was born. His mother and one of his two brothers died later of smallpox, while Jackson's other brother died during the American Revolution. By the age of fourteen years, Jackson had no family. He inherited three hundred dollars from his grandfather and used this money to support himself.
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The first president to be born in a log cabin (although hardly the last to claim to be!), Andrew Jackson was ... the first man elected to the House of Representatives from the state of Tennessee. As a military leader, his role in the defeat of the British at the Battle of New Orleans made Jackson a national hero, and in 1824 he seemed destined to ride into the White House on his popularity. While Jackson did, indeed, receive the most popular and electoral votes, he did not receive a majority, and the race was decided by the House of Representatives. Jackson's supporters were outraged when the House chose opponent John Quincy Adams, resulting in reforms of the American party system and the electoral process. Jackson returned in 1828 to win the presidency.
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Andrew Jackson made such a lasting impression upon his times that the period when he was president is usually called the Age of Jackson or the Era of Jacksonian Democracy. As the victor in the battle of New Orleans, during the War of 1812, he was one of the nation's most famous military heroes. As president he stood for equality of opportunity and for the right of ordinary Americans to better themselves. The average American responded by taking a far more active interest in politics than ever before. When Jackson was first inaugurated, in 1829, one admirer wrote, "It was a proud day for the people--General Jackson is their own president!"
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Andrew Jackson was born to Presbyterian Scots-Irish immigrants Andrew and Elizabeth Jackson in Waxhaw , North Carolina, on March 15, 1767.[3] He was the youngest of three brothers and was born just weeks after his father's death. Both North Carolina and South Carolina have claimed Jackson as a "native son," because the community straddled the state line, and there was conflicting lore in the neighborhood about his exact birth site. Controversies about Jackson's birthplace went far beyond the dispute between North and South Carolina. Because his origins were humble and obscure compared to those of his predecessors, wild rumors abounded about Jackson's past. Joseph Nathan Kane, in his almanac-style book Facts About the Presidents, lists no fewer than eight localities, including two foreign countries, that were mentioned in the popular press as Jackson's "real" birthplace -- including Ireland, where both of Jackson's parents were born. Jackson himself always stated definitively that he was born in a cabin just inside South Carolina.[4] He received a sporadic education in the local "old-field" school.
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A veteran of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson was popularly known as "Old Hickory" for his ruggedness. He gained national fame when he ran the British out of New Orleans in 1815, and he governed the Florida territory from 1821-23. Elected to the U.S. Senate by the Tennessee legislature in 1823, he was sent to Washington as a presidential contender on the strength of his image as a hero of the wild frontier. The confusion of the 1824 election led to the House of Representatives electing John Quincy Adams over Jackson, but Jackson won the 1828 election and denied Adams a second term. Jackson was re-elected in 1832, then followed the example of George Washington and chose not to seek a third term. Jackson, in ill health, returned to his estate in Tennessee, the Hermitage, and continued to play a role in party politics after handpicking Martin Van Buren as the Democratic party's nominee in 1836 (Van Buren won and succeeded Jackson).
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