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The Man Of History : Andrew Jackson

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MEN OF HISTORY ISSUE #1 ANDREW JACKSON MEN OF HISTORY issue #1 ANDREW JACKSON 7TH PRESIDENT Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the area between North Carolina and South Carolina. He was a lawyer and a landowner, he became a national hero after beating the British at New Orleans during the War of 1812. Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States in 1828. Known as the "people 's president," Jackson removed the Second Bank of the United States, founded the Democratic Party, and supported individual liberty. He also instituted policies that resulted in the forced migration of Native Americans from the Cherokee tribe. He died on June 8, 1845. Andrew was born to Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Scottish-Irish colonists who came to the U.S. from Ireland in 1765. Though Jackson’s birthplace is said to have been at one of his Uncles houses in the remote Waxhaw’s region, that straddles North Carolina and South Carolina, the exact location is unknown since the precise border had yet to be surveyed. Jackson’s birth came just three weeks after the death of his father at the age of 29 years old. Jackson received poor education just previous to the revolutionary war. After his older brother Hugh was killed in the Battle of Stono Ferry in 1779, the future president joined the militia at age 13 and served as a courier. He was soon captured by the British along with his brother Robert in 1781, and because of this Jackson was left with a permanent

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