![]() Jackson’s triumph at New Orleans quickly became the stuff of legend and made him America’s greatest military hero since George Washington. After serving as Tennessee prosecutor, judge, congressman, and senator, he won fame as a Major General in the War of 1812 with overwhelming victories against the Creek Indians in 1814 and the British at New Orleans in January 1815. Charges of adultery arising from the episode dogged Jackson’s later political career. ![]() They were formally married after her divorce in 1794. In 1791 he began living with Rachel Donelson Robards, whose husband had abandoned her. He fought as a boy in the Revolutionary War, studied law, and in 1788 moved west to Nashville. Jackson was born in 1767 in Waxhaw, South Carolina, to Scotch-Irish immigrants. In his two-term presidency, he expanded executive powers and transformed the president’s role from chief administrator to popular tribune. ![]() ![]() He became a democratic symbol and founder of the Democratic Party. Born to obscure parents and orphaned in youth, he was the first “self-made man” and the first westerner to reach the White House. Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, was the dominant actor in American politics between Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. ![]()
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