President Andrew Jackson

PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
 
 
Andrew Jackson  (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.  Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress.  As president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the “common man” against a “corrupt aristocracy” and to preserve the Union.  He ran for president in 1824, winning a plurality of the popular and electoral vote.  As no candidate won an electoral majority, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams in a contingent election.  In reaction to the alleged “corrupt bargain” between Adams and Henry Clay and the ambitious agenda of President Adams, Jackson’s supporters founded the Democratic Party.  Jackson ran again in 1828, defeating Adams in a landslide.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
Alexander Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of our nation and was also the founder of the country’s first political party in the modern sense, the Federalist Party.  In honor of his being the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury during the administration of President George Washington, his portrait has graced the front of the $10 bill since 1929.  Before Hamilton became such a hit, that was about to change in the recent drive to put a woman on some of our folding money – word now is that President Andrew Jackson will soon be removed from the $20 bill
 
(September 2016)
 
Last edited: March 22, 2021