unemployed house painter Richard Lawrence tried to change the course of history with an attempt to assassinate then-President Andrew Jackson. That cold and dreary Friday, Jackson had been ...

Even before he was elected President, Andrew Jackson had ... their removal was essential to Jackson's plan. Andrew Jackson's Second Annual Message, was delivered on December 6, 1830 to U.S ...

As president, Jackson took things personally, ousting all Cabinet members because their wives refused to socialize with his secretary of war's young second wife, who was accused, as Jackson's late ...

Born: March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina... Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, and his populist appeal lay in his message of inclusion against what he characterized ...

The portrait of Andrew ... president owned slaves and ordered the Southeastern Indians west on the Trail of Tears. Inconveniently, Jackson was long a Democratic icon, nominated for his second ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson ... first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice Democrats are poorly positioned to criticize, even though the seventh president owned slaves and ordered the ...

The portrait of Andrew ... president owned slaves and ordered the Southeastern Indians west on the Trail of Tears. Inconveniently, Jackson was long a Democratic icon, nominated for his second ...