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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 .
Andrew Jackson referred to an accusation that his "Mother ... [was] held to public scorn as a prostitute who intermarried with a Negro, and [that his] ... eldest brother [was] sold as a slave in Carolina." [29] [30] Less specific was a rumor of Jackson having "colored blood", meaning having "Negro" ancestry; [31] this rumor was
His mother remarried; and there is a suggestion of strife between both John Samuel Donelson and his new stepfather, James Sanders, and between the new stepfather and Andrew Jackson. The sons of Samuel Donelson lived at least part-time at the Hermitage and ultimately became estranged from their mother.
[12] Biographer Robert V. Remini summarized the conclusions of a book called Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian as "[Michael Paul Rogin] finds Jackson's relations with the Indians to involve deep psychological problems," [13] but "while I feel there are many excellent insights into Jackson's ...
A lithograph, circa 1835, showing Andrew Jackson as the "Great Father" caring for Native Americans, who are depicted as children.. Great Father and Great Mother (French: Bon Père, Grand-Mère, Spanish: Gran Padre, Gran Madre) were titles used by European colonial powers in North America along with the United States during the 19th century to refer to the U.S. President, the King of Great ...
Lyncoya was the third of three Native American war orphans who were transported to Andrew Jackson's Hermitage in 1813–14. The other two, Theodore and Charley, died or disappeared shortly after their arrivals in Tennessee, but Lyncoya survived and was raised in the household of former slave trader and ex-U.S. Senator Andrew Jackson.
Katherine Jackson, Michael Jackson's mother and the court-ordered temporary guardian of his children, was named in a will seven years ago as guardian of Jackson's children, Prince Micheal I, Paris ...
Andrew Pickens, Sr. and Ann Pickens, parents of Andrew Pickens, U.S. Congressman James H. Witherspoon, Lt. Governor of South Carolina, 1826–1828 Casualties of "Buford's Massacre" , May 28, 1780