- The Presidency of Andrew Jackson spanned the period in United States history that encompasses the events of the Jacksonian Era.
- Illustration from John Frost's A Pictorial Biography of Andrew Jackson (1860) depicting 13-year-old Andrew Jackson's refusal to shine the boots of a British officer.
- Andrew and Rachel Jackson did not have any children of their own, but adopted one of Rachel's nephews and gave him the name of Andrew Jackson, Jr.
- Fast Facts: Andrew Jackson
- Parents: Irish immigrants Andrew Jackson and his wife Elizabeth Hutchinson
- Adopted Children: Andrew Jackson, Jr., Lyncoya, and Andrew Jackson Hutchings
- Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, is a figure of both admiration and controversy in American history.
- Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaws region on the border of North and South Carolina .
- The one who suffered the most of this was Andrew Jackson’s wife who was accused of being an adulterer and publicly ridiculed by Jackson’s opponents.
- His father, Andrew Jackson, came over from Carrickfergus, on the north coast of Ireland, in 1765. His grandfather, Hugh Jackson, had been a linen-draper.
- In 1778 the Revolutionary War came to the Carolinas. Jackson and his brothers volunteered to fight the British, but only Andrew would survive the war.
- Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. He is known for founding the Democratic Party and for his support of individual liberty.