True History: Andrew Jackson, America's Seventh President

Friday, March 10, 2017

Andrew Jackson, America's Seventh President

I'm not going to say a whole lot about this former president, but, I am writing this article to help us see that things were not always rosy in the United States of America, especially concerning the presidency.

We have issues now. We had issues back then. We didn't necessarily always have men leading this country who were Godly, upright, and full of integrity. Some times, we had the opposite. Many times, we just had a mixture of both bad and good.

The focus today is on a man named Andrew Jackson, a.k.a. 'Old Hickory'.

Andrew Jackson was born of immigrant parents in 1765. At the time he was born, the place was located between North Carolina and South Carolina in an area known as Waxhaws Wilderness. Both parents were from Ireland.

Jackson had a feisty personality, and he ended up in many duels, killing a person in one of them. He was also shot at a couple of times, and the bullets remained inside of his body, even though he was never killed or even wounded after being shot.

Jackson was responsible for the Indian Removal Act, which led to the infamous 'Trail of Tears'. He led campaigns against the Seminoles and the Creeks as well. But on an opposite note, he adopted two little Native American boys.

An interesting fact is that Jackson tried to do away with the electoral college. He won the popular vote each time he ran for presidency, but in one election, none of the candidates won the majority vote, so it had to go to the House of Representatives, which ended up selecting John Quincy Adams instead of Jackson. Jackson supporters called that action a 'corrupt bargain' and ever since that time, Jackson lobbied for the abolition of the Electoral College in his annual messages to Congress.

As a two term winner of the presidential election, he was the seventh president of the United States of America, and served from 1829-1837. He was Democrat.