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Jackson's nephew, Andrew Jackson Donelson, served as the president's personal secretary, and wife, Emily, acted as the White House hostess. [26] Jackson's inaugural cabinet suffered from bitter partisanship and gossip, especially between Eaton, Vice President John C. Calhoun, and Van Buren. By mid-1831, all except Barry (and Calhoun) had ...
The 1835 State of the Union Address was delivered by the 7th president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, on December 8, 1835, to the 24th United States Congress.This was Jackson's seventh annual message, and he used it to reflect on both domestic successes and challenges as his presidency neared its conclusion.
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh president of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. Before his presidency , he gained fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress .
American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House online] Niven, John. John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union (1988) ISBN 0-8071-1451-0; Peterson, Merrill D. The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun (1987) ISBN 0-19-503877-0; Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822–1832, v2 (1981) ISBN 0-06-014844-6
While Andrew Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes and the popular vote in the election of 1824, he lost to John Quincy Adams as the election was deferred to the House of Representatives (by the terms of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a presidential election in which no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote is decided by a contingent election in the ...
On March 28, 1834, the United States Senate voted to censure U.S. president Andrew Jackson over his actions to remove federal deposits from the Second Bank of the United States and his firing of Secretary of the Treasury William J. Duane in order to do so. Jackson was a Democrat, and the censure was passed by the Senate while under a Whig majority.
Andrew Jackson, later seventh president of the United States, was involved in a series of altercations in his personal and professional life. According to historian J. M. Opal, "[Jackson's] willingness to kill, assault, or threaten people was a constant theme in his adult life and a central component of the reputation he cultivated."
President James K. Polk directed U.S. foreign policy from 1845 to 1849. The history of U.S. foreign policy from 1829 to 1861 concerns the foreign policy of the United States during the presidential administrations of Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan.