On January 30, 1835, unemployed house painter Richard Lawrence tried to change the course of history with an attempt to ...

Inconveniently, Jackson ... party’s presidential nominees for the rest of his life. Trump, after the ructions of his first ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched ... the 2016 presidential campaign as Democrats cast off Jackson and Thomas Jefferson from state party fundraising dinners in search of less controversial ...

Campaign Jackson was nominated for presidency in 1824, but lost to John Quincy Adams when the election came down to the vote of speaker of the House ... to white land owners). The 1828 election was ...

Archaeologists have found 28 graves of people who were enslaved by Andrew Jackson at his ... he brought people he enslaved to the White House. In 1804, Jackson purchased 425 acres (172 hectares ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 Laura Kiniry Travel Correspondent Andrew Jackson was exiting the U.S ...

Inconveniently, Jackson was long a Democratic ... established similar dominance over the party he adopted and proceeded to make his own. When House Republicans' ebullient fractiousness threatened ...