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Emily Donelson, niece of Andrew Jackson's late wife Rachel Donelson Robards and the wife of Jackson's adopted son and confidant Andrew Jackson Donelson, served as Jackson's "surrogate First Lady". [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Emily Donelson chose to side with the Calhoun faction, which led Jackson to replace her with his daughter-in-law Sarah Yorke Jackson as ...
Rachel Jackson (née Donelson; June 15, 1767 – December 22, 1828) was the wife of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. [1] [2] She lived with him at their home at the Hermitage, where she died just days after his election and before his inauguration in 1829—therefore she never served as first lady, a role assumed by her niece, Emily Donelson.
As Frances Clifton put it in her study of Jackson's long friendship with John Overton, "Jackson's irregular marriage proved good propaganda for the friends of Adams and Clay. The political enemies of Jackson 'saw in his wife a weak spot in his armor through which his vitals might be reached; and they did not hesitate to make the most of it ...
William Hunter Smith - Described by Jackson biographer Remini as "a neighbor's unwanted burden," [8] he was a son of Bennett Smith and a brother of Mary Smith Hutchings (the wife of John Hutchings, who was a nephew of Rachel Jackson and as "Jacky" was Jackson's partner in slave trading and cotton shipping).
Jackson and his wife LaTanya Richardson Jackson previously teamed up with John David and Ray Fisher to revive The Piano Lesson on Broadway in 2022. Denzel, 69, is a producer on the new film, and ...
John Andrew Jackson was an American abolitionist in the nineteenth century. He was born into slavery on a country plantation in Sumter County, South Carolina . His escape north to Canada may have been one of many slave experiences that inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin .
After Jackson, his wife LaTanya Richardson Jackson, John David and Ray Fisher combined forces to revive August Wilson's play on Broadway in 2022, the pair are working with John David's father ...
John Jackson’s first wife Maria also died in March 1817 shortly before their son John Edmund died. John's first daughter, Maria Rosa Jackson married Marmaduke Brewer and she later ran a school in Monmouthshire. Jackson had three confirmed children with Matilda. His first son, Howard William Mansfield Jackson was born in 1824.