Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829-1837) as well as a lawyer, general, and legislator. Born in the Carolinas, he served as a courier during the Revolutionary War. He read for the law during his teen years and became a lawyer in Tennessee by 1787. The first U. S. Representative for Tennessee (1796), Jackson was elected to the Senate in 1797, resigned in 1798, and served as a judge on the Tennessee Supreme Court, 1798-1804. He was later reelected to the Senate in 1822.

As a major general during the war of 1812, Jackson defeated the British at New Orleans in 1815. Additionally, he fought in the Creek Wars and the Seminole War and became the Military Governor of Florida in 1819 after Spain ceded the territory to the U. S.

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