President Donald Trump feels kinship with former President Andrew Jackson. But a presidential historian says that Jackson ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple words and two dates: "General Andrew Jackson, March 15, 1767 -- June 8, 1845." The inscription on the marker for the President's beloved wife ...

Jackson’s first election was opposed by his four living predecessors, as Trump’s was by his five. But Jackson was the first and so far only president who determined his party’s presidential ...

The 1828 election was seen as a rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson ... and he was the first president to use the pocket veto. In total, Jackson vetoed twelve bills. In 1836 a budget ...

Even before he was elected President, Andrew Jackson had been instrumental in forcing Native Americans out of the South. Once in office, he continued this policy at an accelerated pace.

Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh ... to the amount of three hundred.” When Jackson was elected president in 1829, he brought 14 enslaved people—eight women and six men ...

his lack of a majority gave the House of Representatives the power to choose a president. Frustrated by what he considered a stolen election, Jackson ran again and won in a landslide in 1828.

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as ...