Andrew Jackson Short Biography

Andrew Jackson was the most loved yet most hated president in history. Jackson was the seventh President of the United States and one of the most controversial presidents our country has ever experienced. In fact, Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “I feel very much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson president. He is one of the most unfit men I know of for the place…He is a dangerous man.” This is how a backwoods boy became the face of the people when the American people needed it most while the common man was becoming more powerless every day. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in a settlement bordering North and South Carolina called Waxhaw only a few days after his father had died. (Britannica) Andrew had to grow up and be the man in the house which could have led to his temper as a child. He became could not take a joke and would pick a fight with anyone from his school that bothered him.(Britannica) In fact, he was bored with school and took to fighting and doing manly things other than the “finesse” school had to offer. This attitude contributed to him being one of the most poorly educated presidents in American history. () This attitude also helped him become one of the most prominent military leaders in history. This all started when as a teenager fighting in the Revolutionary War when, “Andrew angrily refused to obey an order to clean a British officer’s boots. The officer struck Andrew with his sword, cutting his left hand to the bone and badly injuring his face and head. These scars remained for the rest of Jackson’s life.”(Osinski 17) Later on in his life Jackson fought in the War of 1812 and worked his way up to a General. Then on December 23, 6,000 British troops invaded New Orleans and for over two weeks the 2,200 American soldiers led by Jackson fought sporadically. Then in the morning of January 8, 1815, the British soldiers attacked the Americans. The British charged the outmanned Americans in four lines only to be