Andrew Jackson
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Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States of America. he was born in Carolina to an Irish immigrant family in 1767. He fought in the Revolution before he was captured and imprisoned by the British. After the war, Jackson worked as a prosecuting attorney in North Carolina, became Tennessee's first elected congressman, and a U.S. senator before he returned to Nashville in 1798. Then he won a seat on the state supreme court. Jackson became a war hero after the War of 1812 and the Battle of New Orleans. In 1821, he was named military governor of the Florida Territory. Jackson gained huge popular support as an anti-British, anti-tyranny, and anti-Indian leader and was urged to return to politics. In 1823, he reclaimed his seat on the Senate and ran for resident of the United States the following year. Although he won the popular vote, he lost in the electoral college and John Quincy Adams was voted president. However, in 1828, he defeated Adams and was named President. He was the common man's president. He forced Indians to move off their land and relocate. He initiated a war on the Second National Bank and vetoed the Bank's recharter in 1832. Thsi move helped secure his re-election .
After his second term, Jackson returned to his home, Hermitage, where he lived out his final years.
--Yasmin Haeri 2000, student at Noble and Greenough School
--history teacher: Michael Denning
--sources: Foner, Eric and Garraty, John A., The Reader's Companion to American History, Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston, 1991.
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