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Andrew Jackson US President

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Mar 15, 1767
  • Died: Jun 8, 1845

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States. He was born into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means, near the end of the colonial era. He was born somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina. During the American Revolutionary War Jackson, whose family supported the revolutionary cause, acted as a courier. He was captured, at age 13, and mistreated by his British captors. He later became a lawyer, and in 1796 he was in Nashville and helped found the state of Tennessee. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and then to the U. S. Senate. In 1801, Jackson was appointed colonel in the Tennessee militia, which became his political as well as military base. Jackson owned hundreds of slaves who worked on the Hermitage plantation which he acquired in 1804. Jackson killed a man in a duel in 1806, over a matter of honor regarding his wife Rachel. Jackson gained national fame through his role in the War of 1812, where he won decisive victories over the Indians and then over the main British invasion army at the Battle of New Orleans.

Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down. war

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power. government & power

One man with courage makes a majority. courage

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. government

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. equality & wisdom

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. government

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. fear

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. peace

War is a blessing compared with national degradation. war

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