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Portrait of Andrew Jackson by Thomas Sully, showing Jackson with gray hair, a serious expression, and wearing a dark coat over a white shirt against a neutral background.
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Andrew Jackson

7th president of the United States
Also known as: Old Hickory
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Harold Whitman Bradley
Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1954–72. Member, Tennessee House of Representatives, 1964–72. Author of The United States, 1492–1877 and others.
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Andrew Jackson (born March 15, 1767, Waxhaws region, South Carolina [U.S.]—died June 8, 1845, the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) was a military hero and the seventh president of the United States (1829–37). He was the first U.S. president to come from the area west of the Appalachians and the first to gain office by a direct appeal to the mass of voters. His political movement has since been known as Jacksonian Democracy. Jackson was...

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