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President Andrew Jackson
| Birth | 15 MAR 1767 | |||
| Occup | 1796-1797 |  | ||
| Occup | 1797-1798 | | ||
| History | Jan 1815 | Battle of New Orleans General, USA |  | |
| Occup | 1821-1821 | | ||
| Occup | 1823-1825 | | ||
| Election | 1824 | USA Presidential Election |  | |
| Election | 1828 | USA Presidential Election | | |
| Occup | 1829-1837 | | ||
| Election | 1832 | USA Presidential Election | | |
| Death | 8 JUN 1845 | Cause: dropsy tuberculosis near nashville | ||
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Andrew Jackson was a different kind of President from what we had previously expected. He was the first common man in the White House, the first one from other than the old line thirteen colonies. Though he had been born in Waxhaw, South Carolina, he spent a great deal of his life in Tennessee and was considered a Tennesseean. Jackson's parents came from Scotch-Irish stock from Northern Ireland and he was reared a Presbyterian. However, we know almost nothing about his early religious views. Indeed, we know little until he left the White House. He was a self-educated man and became a lawyer in Tennessee. Though he never attended college, he studied law on his own and thus received a law degree. He was involved in writing the Tennessee Constitution... Read More
