Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Andrew( 1767–1845),7th President of the U.S. (1829–37), was born in the backwoods country of South Carolina, and at the age of 13 participated in Revolutionary War battles. He was admitted to the bar in North Carolina (1787), in a western district that is now a part of Tennessee. He helped draft the constitution of Tennessee (1796), and served in Congress as a representative (1796–97) and a senator (1797–98), later becoming a judge of the state supreme court and major general of the state militia. He took the side of Burr in the latter's trial for treason (1807), and retired to private life on his plantation until 1812.
The following year he led the militia in the defeat of the Creek Indians at Talladega and at Horseshoe Bend in 1814, and then became a major general in the U.S. army, capturing Florida and commanding the defense of New Orleans against the British. His spectacular victory in the Battle of New Orleans,...
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