Andrew Jackson

POLITICAL PARTIES
Democratic-Republican (thru 1828)
Democrat (1828-45)

RELIGION
Presbyterian

EDUCATION
Studied law in Salisbury, North Carolina

VITALS
6 ft 1 in / 140 lbs

CAREER
1787-91 Prosecuting attorney, Western District of North Carolina
1791-96 Attorney general, Western District of North Carolina
1796-97 U.S. Representative, Tennessee
1797-98 U.S. Senator, Tennessee
1798-1804 Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court
1804-14 Planter, merchant, The Hermitage, Nashville
1814-23 Brigadier General, U.S. Army
1821 Federal Military Commissioner, Florida
1823-25 U.S. Senator, Tennessee

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
October 31 - November 19, 1828
Popular: Jackson 642,553 (56%) John Quincy Adams 500,897 (44%)
Electoral: Jackson 178 Adams 83
November 2 - 21, 1832
Popular: Jackson 701,780 (54% ) Henry Clay 484,205 (37%) William Wirt 100,715 (8%)
Electoral: Jackson 219 Clay 49 John Floyd 11 Wirt 7

VICE PRESIDENTS
John C. Calhoun (1829-1832)
Martin Van Buren (1833-1837)

ADMINISTRATION
Smithsonian founded, Kitchen Cabinet established (1829); Indian Removal Act (1830); Second Bank of U.S. vetoed (1832); Treaty of New Echota leads to Trail of Tears (1835); The Alamo (1836)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
John McLean, Henry Baldwin, James M. Wayne, Roger Taney, Philip Barbour, John Catron

NEW STATES
Arkansas (1836), Michigan (1837)

FIRST LADY
Emily Donelson, niece (1829-34)
Sarah Jackson, daughter-in-law (1834-37)

“Without union, our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union, they never can be maintained.”
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1833

Portrait of Andrew Jackson by Ralph E.W. Earl, c. 1835.