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Birth place and date
Place born: Waxhaw -
Childhood
Jackson was born on the western frontier of the Carolinas. In the latter year he was captured by the British. Mother and two brothers died during the closing years of the war. He Later studied law in an office in Salisbury, North Carolina, and was admitted to the bar of that state in 1787. -
Life time
Andrew Jackson married Rachel Donelson Jackson who was a widow with 11 children. He helped raise her children as if they were his own. -
Facts
Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1796-97 -
Andrew jackson
United States Senator, 1797 -
About Andrew Jackson
He joined the Army at the age of just 13 to fight in the Revolutionary War. Larer he fought in the War of 1812 -
Presidential election
election -
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Presidential Election
Jackson lost the presidential election in 1824. He did win a 42% percent of the popular vote and like 99 electoral votes. Jackson didnt have the required majority so it went to the house and Henry Clay was Speaker of the house, which gave him alot of the power. In December Jackson won the election in a landslide. The count was 178 to 83 electoral votes. -
Political party
Andrew Jackson was a Democrat- Republican. The party lasted it split over slavery of the eve of the Civil War. It elected four more presidents after Jackson. It has ties to the modern Democratic party which formed after the Civil War.
(1828- 1845) -
Inauguration
The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Andrew Jackson as President. Jackson was sworn in by Chief Justice John Marshall. -
Time as president
He became the 7th President of America in 1829 at the age of 61 and served for 8 years until 1837 -
Vice president
John C. Calhoun -
Vice president
Martin Van Buren -
Cause of death
He died of consumption, dropsy and tubercular haemorrhaging on June 8, 1845 near Nashville, Tennessee