Andrew Jackson - William Garrott Brown

Andrew Jackson

By William Garrott Brown

  • Release Date: 1860-01-01
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Biography of Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845), the seventh President of the United States (1829-1837). He was military governor of Florida (1821), commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815), and eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy. A polarizing figure who dominated American politics in the 1820s and 1830s, his political ambition combined with widening political participation, shaping the modern Democratic Party.

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