Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United Stated of America, was born
on March 15, 1767 and died on June 8, 1845 in Nashville, Tennessee. Jackson s
parents Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson were Presyberitains, Scots Irish
settlers whom in 1765 emigrated from Ireland. Andrew s birthplace is deduced to
have been at one of his uncles houses in the Waxhaw s area between North Carolina
and South Carolina, his exact whereabouts is unknown. Jackson s mother emigrated
across the Appalachian Mountains after burying her husband. Jackson s father died
three weeks before he was born in a logging accident. His mother, Elizabeth
Hutchinson Jackson was a strong independent woman who was able to raise her three
sons while they lived... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
He moved to Salisbury, North Carolina, where he studied law by apprenticing with
prominent lawyers. In September 1787, after three years of studying law, Jackson
was admitted to the North Carolina Bar and received his license to practice law in
Jonesborough (now part in Tennessee). To supplement his income, he also worked
in small town general stores. While living in North Carolina, Jackson gained a
reputation for being charismatic, wild, and ambitious. (The Jackson Family,
www.thehermitage.com/jackson family/andrew jackson/early life) pg1. Jackson
married Rachel Donelson in 1794. Rachel had been previously married to Lewis
Robards on March 1, 1785. In 1790 she was living an unhappy marriage because of
Lewis unreasonable jealousy and completely departed from him. She then moved
back with her mother to Nashville, Tennessee where she had already met Andrew
in November of 1788. They got married in 1791 but she discovered she wasn t
actually divorced so they got remarried in 1794. On December 22, 1828, two
months before Jackson s presidential inauguration, Rachel died of a heart attack.
Jackson and Rachel had no biological children but always lived at The Hermitage an
expansive plantation in Davidson County, Tennessee (near Nashville). In 1808, they
adopted one set of twins from Rachel s brother Stevern Donelson and his wife
Elizabeth and raised him as their own. They named him Andrew Jackson Junior.
Andrew Junior and his twin, Thomas Jefferson Donelson, remained