Records of the U.S. House of Representatives. 1789 - 2015. Petitions and Memorials. 1793 - 1911. Petitions and Memorials from the Committee on Claims of the Seventh Congress. 1793 - 1911. Petition of Andrew Jackson for relief from the whiskey tax

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Records of the U.S. House of Representatives. 1789 - 2015. Petitions and Memorials. 1793 - 1911. Petitions and Memorials from the Committee on Claims of the Seventh Congress. 1793 - 1911. Petition of Andrew Jackson for relief from the whiskey tax

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...