Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson


Andrew Jackson was the first person to be elected for the highest office of the United States with little formal education. At the age of 13, Jackson joined the Army to fight in the Revolution along with his older brother. Jackson and his brother were captured by the British, and were let go soon after their mother begged for the British to release them. When Jackson was just fourteen years of age, a mad British man struck Jackson in the face with a sword, leaving him with a scar in reminder of his hate and disrespect for the British. Jackson soon went on to practice law in the state of Tennessee, where he later met his wife, Rachel Robards.(The American President Webpage, pg. 1) The two were married in 1791. A little after that they were divorced. He was noticed by many people after he and a couple of volunteer soldiers fought the Native American Tribe. Jackson forced the tribe to surrender 23 million acres of their land. He was then moved to the hi...