Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American statesman and soldier who served as the United States’ seventh president from 1829 to 1837. Jackson rose to prominence as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress before being elected to the presidency. Jackson, an expansionist president, campaigned for the interests of the “common man” against a “corrupt aristocracy” while still attempting to hold the Union together.