"Old Hickory" was the nickname of the seventh president of the United States. Jackson is remembered as being a spokesman of the common man and for his role in the defeat of the Second Bank of the United States.

Full Name: Andrew Jackson

Birth Date &. Place: March 15, 1767
Banks of Crawford's Branch of Waxhaw Creek in South Carolina

Schooling: Sporadic education. Read law for two years and became an outstanding young lawyer

Lived: South Carolina, North Carolina, His estate, The Hermitage, in Nashville, Tennessee, White House – Washington, D.C.

Death: June 8, 1845
The Hermitage

The greatest party battle during Jackson's time was centered around the Second Bank of the United States, a private corporation but virtually a government-sponsored monopoly:

• Jackson appeared hostile against a bill to recharter the Bank
• With the help of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay (his Whig opponent in the election of 1832), threw Jackson's hatred for the bank against him in the campaign
• Jackson's views won approval with the people in the election of 1832
• Jackson won 56% of the popular vote and received five times as many electoral votes as Clay
• In 1836, the charter of the Second Bank expired and the concept was dissolved–leaving the funds to be distributed to state banks ("Jackson's pet banks").

First man from Tennessee elected to the House of Representatives.

Served as Major General in the War of 1812, and became a national hero with victory at the Battle of New Orleans.

Elected seventh President of the United States of America in 1828.

As President, his "Jacksonian Democracy" moved the country in a more democratic direction:

• He saw himself as the steward of the public interest
• He desired to provide opportunity and equality for all men, and
• He was regarded by many as the spokesman of the common man.

Nickname: "Old Hickory" referred to his military toughness.

The first two-party political system was born under Jackson–Democrats (supporters) and National-Republicans or Whigs (opposers).

During his presidency, Jackson listened to the advice of a group of unofficial advisors called the "kitchen cabinet." He met secretly with this group in the White House kitchen to discuss matters of the state.

His portrait is on the $20 bill.

"Do what is right between these parties. That is what the law always means."

"Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms."

"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."

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