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Facts about Andrew Jackson

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Andrew Jackson Hutchings was Rachel's orphaned grand nephew.

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John Samuel Donelson, Daniel Donelson, and Andrew Jackson Donelson were the sons of Rachel's brother Samuel Donelson who died in 1804.

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After he became president in 1828, Andrew Jackson systematically rewarded his supporters.

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Jackson had two adopted sons, Andrew Jackson Jr., the son of Rachel's brother Severn Donelson, and Lyncoya, a Creek Indian orphan adopted by Jackson after the Creek War.

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Perhaps the most controversial aspect of Andrew Jackson's presidency was his policy regarding American Indians.

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Sarah Yorke Jackson, the wife of Andrew Jackson Jr., became co-hostess of the White House in 1834.

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Emily was married to Andrew Jackson Donelson, who acted as Jackson's private secretary.

Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 in the Waxhaws region between North Carolina and South Carolina. A lawyer and a landowner, he became a national war hero after defeating the British in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States in 1828.Dec 29, 2017

The Kitchen Cabinet was a term used by political opponents of President of the United States Andrew Jackson to describe his ginger group, the collection of unofficial advisors he consulted in parallel to the United States Cabinet (the "parlor cabinet") following his purge of the cabinet at the end of the Eaton affair ...

Nullification Proclamation. Andrew Jackson / drawn from life and engraved by J.B. Longacre. On December 10, 1832, President Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation to the people of South Carolina that disputed a states' right to nullify a federal law.