Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 on the Carolina frontier. Orphaned by age 14, he became a self-taught lawyer, a war hero famous for his victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, and the first president from west of the Appalachians.

Jackson won the presidency in 1828 in a landslide, ushering in the era of "Jacksonian democracy."

His presidency was marked by the dismantling of the Second Bank of the United States, the Nullification Crisis with South Carolina, and the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which led to the Trail of Tears.

“The bank is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.”

“One man with courage makes a majority.”