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Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before his presidency , he rose to fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress .
20 presidents previously served as governors; 17 presidents were state governors; [2] 9 were governors immediately before election as presidents. Two, William Henry Harrison and William Howard Taft, served as territorial governors. One, Andrew Jackson, served as a military governor of a territory (Florida) before it became a state.
The presidency of Andrew Jackson began on March 4, 1829, when Andrew Jackson was inaugurated as 7th President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1837. Jackson took office after defeating incumbent President John Quincy Adams in the bitterly contested 1828 presidential election .
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [9] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [10]
Andrew Jackson: 1796–1797 James K. Polk: 1825–1839 Only former speaker to become president Andrew Johnson: 1843–1853 Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson: 1937–1949 George H. W. Bush: 1967–1971 Virginia: James Madison: 1789–1797 First former representative to become president John Tyler: 1816–1821
The Jackson City Council voted in 2020 to remove the Andrew Jackson statue, seen here on June 10, 2024, outside of City Hall. To date, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History has yet to ...
The Civics Project: the most common career paths taken on the way to be U.S. President.
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House is a 2008 biography of Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, written by Jon Meacham.It won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, with the prize jury describing it as "an unflinching portrait of a not always admirable democrat but a pivotal president, written with an agile prose that brings the Jackson saga to life".