Jackson Administrations - Career
Career
Shortly after passing the North Carolina bar, Andrew Jackson headed west with several of his friends for the Tennessee territory. In the frontier town of Nashville, Jackson quickly established himself as an able prosecutor, trying cases that dealt mostly with land titles, debts, and sales. His record as a lawyer quickly earned him an appointment as attorney general for a district in the Southwest Territory, and financial success allowed him to begin constructing his family plantation near Nashville, which he called the Hermitage.
In 1795 Jackson became involved in a land deal of his own that went sour: he sold a large parcel of land to a Philadelphia merchant named David Allison, who offered a down payment and promissory notes to cover the rest of the purchase. After the deal Jackson wrote some promissory notes of his own, based on the income expected from the deal. But in 1797 Allison went bankrupt, defaulted on the...
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