Andrew Jackson. Bio

Andrew Jackson
  Andrew Jackson was born Esther in North or South Carolina on March 15, 1767. He received a fairly good education in his early years by private tutors, but at the age of 15 he chose to go to school. When he was 13 he joined the Continental Army
  He became a lawyer in 1787 and, before his presidency, he was Tennessee’s first US representative, a US senator and a justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court. As regards his military career, he was a major general of the Tennessee Volunteers in 1814 and of the army fighting the war of 1812, defeating the British in New Orleans and lauded as a hero. Also, he served in the first Seminole War and he was the military governor of Florida in 1821.
  He was president between 1829-1837. He believed in rewarding loyalty and appealing to the masses. During his presidency, Jackson supported Georgia’s expulsion of the Native American Indians from their land to the reservation in the West using the Indian Removal Act. From 1838-a839, troops of Cherokees went out from Georgia in what is called the Trail of Tears. Also, he created the Second Bank of the USA charter.
  In the election of 1828 the Democratic Republican Party split in two: the Democrats, the one in which Jackson was part, and the National Republican Party.
  Finally, he returned to Tennessee and stayed active politically until his death on June 8, 1845.
  Andrew Jackson is seen as one of the United State's greatest presidents. He was the first "citizen-president" representing the common man. He believed strongly in preserving the union and in keeping too much power out of the hands of the wealthy. He was also the first President to truly embrace the powers of the presidency.