We're now a week into my daily threads of American Presidents in honor of the USA's 250thToday is Andrew Jackson (3/15/1767 - 6/8/1845), who was president from 1829 to 1836. Before becoming president, he was a well known war hero for winning the Battles of New Orleans and Horseshoe Bend. He probably directly killed more people than any other president. Notable actions or events as president include the Spoils System's introduction, the Petticoat Affair, the Indian Removal Act, the Nullification Crisis, the Bank War, telling the Supreme Court to go fuck itself, Nat Turner's Rebellion, and recognizing Texas on his last day in office. What do you think of the man with more bullets in him than a lead factory?
>>18496561I admit to be ignorant about Jackson, please help me understand what trivia is true or false. Jackson is presented on the internet as this great (or horrible on reddit) man who hated the jews and fought against the jews and banker control>Jackson wasn't Hitler level antisemitic but he was a Hitler level banker hater and did everything in his power to limit bank powerSo like, true? And everyone says Woodrow Wilson undid all his anti banker policies and even plastered his face on the dollar as mockery because jews really fucking hated Jackson>Jackson also killed a quadrillion Indians, he was so racist he had an Indian skull to drink fromThe last part is probably /pol/ misinfo, you mention in the OP that he killed the most people directly out of any president, so maybe it is true he hated Indians and killed them out of hatred instead of any real reason?
psychopath and total retard who like most Southerners didn't understand banks or an economy>derf what do you mean I can't just spend myself into debt buying bling? the bank actually expects me to pay back the money they loaned me? this is tyranny!
>>18496582The fuck are you talking about?Nothing Jackson ever said or did involves jewsDon't be terminally onlineOP means he killed a shit ton of people himself in New Orleans/duels
>>18496561Hate banks.Hate bongs.Hate injuns.Love me wife.Simple as.
>>18496582>The last part is probably /pol/ misinfo, you mention in the OP that he killed the most people directly out of any president, so maybe it is true he hated Indians and killed them out of hatred instead of any real reason?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_violent_incidents_involving_Andrew_Jackson read this
>Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a close Jackson ally despite having shot the latter in a duel back in 1812 and nearly killed him. Benton stood on the floor of the Senate and challenged Whigs to point out where in the Constitution it granted authorization for a national bank. He could not find any such text in there.>The president was willing to compromise on the issue of the Bank. He offered a few proposals. One of them was that the Bank might be headquartered in Washington D.C., a Federal district, instead of the states. Another was that the Bank might operate branches in the states with their consent. Whigs refused all of these proposals and continued to insist that it was a Federal function that required no consent from state governments.
>>18496642Jackson's war on the BOTUS was as much anything a matter of practical politics--the Bank's headquarters in Philadelphia made that city a Federalist/Whig outpost in an otherwise Democrat state that he wished to get rid of.
>>18496642Jackson was shot in the shoulder in a duel with the Benton brothers in Nashville in 1812 and nearly died from blood loss. It was pretty dumb of a 44 year old man to challenge two much younger guys to a duel.
>>18496561One of the worst presidents in American history. He embodied all the wors and most negative aspects of the United States, fucked the country up economically for nearly a generation and was just an all around moronic bastard.
>Britain became worried at Jackson's election as president, knowing his past, but he proved surprisingly conciliatory. After John Quincy Adams had failed to convince London to open their Caribbean islands to American shipping, Jackson went hat-in-hand to them and asked politely if the islands might be opened. The British Foreign Office, impressed at this gentlemanly display, agreed.
>>18496561Despite never having children of his own, Jackson was a prolific foster parent and help foster like 20 children two of which he officially adopted. One of the most famous ones was Lyncoya Jackson, a creek indian. Jackson found the infant boy clinging to his dead mother in the during the Creek War and sent him to his plantation home, The Hermitage. He was raised with an education and Jackson had planned to send him to West Point for a higher education, but he unfortunately died at the age of 16 from tuberculosis. Jackson was heartbroken over it.
>>18496561https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVBjQotB1Ms
On the morning of 30 May 1806 Jackson fought a duel with a rival politician, Charles Dickinson. Armed with .70 calibre dueling pistols, the two men stood a mere 24 feet apart. Dickinson was an excellent shot and had already killed 26 men in duels.Dickinson fired first, aiming for Jackson’s heart, Jackson stood there and took aim and fired, dropping Dickinson. Dickinson would die later that night from his wound. Jackson then turned and walked off the field to his carriage, never letting on that Dickinson’s shot had been true. Upon being examined by his doctor, it was found that Dickinson’s ball had shattered two of Jackson’s ribs and lodged just inches from his heart, causing the doctor to remark, “I don’t see how you stayed on your feet after that wound.” Jackson would carry that lead ball in his chest to his grave, and the wound would bother Jackson for the rest of his life
>>18496561Andrew Jackson was born in the hinterlands of the Carolinas in 1767 to two poor scots-irish immigrants to the colonies who tried to make it as pinoeers. His father was killed in an indian raid when he was still very young and the young Andrew and his siblings were raised by his mother. When the revolutionary war broke out, Andrew and his brothers joined the patriot cause with 13 yo Andrew becoming a courier. In 1781 he and his brothers. In a famous incident, a British officer demanded that a captured Jackson shine his boots and he refused (some stories say he spat on them) and the officer struck the boy on the head with his sword leaving a permeant scar.He and his brothers were imprisoned on a POW ship. A british boat docked off land to house prisoners in some of the most miserable conditioned imaginable with diseases and starvation being rampant and killing much healthier and stronger and older men. He and his brothers were finally released in a prisoner exchange, and his aging mother made the trek back home with her sick children alone with one mule. Jackson rode it for a while, but his brother Robert was so sick that he rode it instead while Jackson (still a starving and sick 13 yo) had to walk on his bare feet the way home. Robert ultimately died on the trip home. You have to imagine what sort of impact this had on Jackson as he grew up and became a lawyer, a soldier, and a statesman, ultimately becoming a national war hero and a pioneering figure in American politics.
The Battle of New Orleans by Eugene-Louis Lemi. Recently saw this on display at a museum in New Orleans and its amazing in person. The painting is 10 feet tall and 16 feet across, massive and gives you the epic scope of the battle. The Museum is the former capital building During the Spanish era and is located in Jackson Square, itself named after Jackson.
The most Chad President. Maybe not the best but definitely the most Chad.
>The Jacksons were never blessed with children--this was no doubt especially hard on Rachel as women had few options for recreation in those days and caring for children gave them something to do. It is not clear on whose end the problem lay, but it was more likely Rachel since she had not been impregnated by her first husband either. In 1807, the couple, who were pushing 40 and increasingly accepting that they would never conceive a natural child, adopted one of Rachel's nephews and raised him as Andrew Jackson Jr.[9]
>On September 4, 1813, Jackson and three nephews got into an argument with Thomas and Jesse Benton at a Nashville hotel. The men agreed to fight a duel and Jesse shot Jackson in the arm. He was badly hurt and was carried to a room upstairs in the hotel where he nearly expired from blood loss--Jackson biographers have said that only his sheer stubborn desire to live preserved him. It was a foolish stunt on Jackson's part, at age 45 he should have known better than to challenge the much younger Benton brothers to a duel. He continued to have difficulty using his left arm for some time after being shot--the ball remained lodged in the bone for almost 20 years but while Jackson was president, a surgeon managed to extract it.
>Jackson's first tenure in national politics came in 1797 when the Tennessee state legislature elected him to fill a Senate seat vacated by the resignation of Senator William Cocke. With Washington D.C. under construction, the national capital was still in Philadelphia at this time and getting to it from Tennessee wasn't easy, it was a slow, arduous, and dangerous trek on horseback over frontier country. The 30 year old Senator came to dislike Congress in a hurry--a man of Jackson's hot temper and strong moral certitude could not easily bear the compromises and wheelings and dealings of politics. He resigned his Senate seat after only seven months and returned home to Tennessee.
>The economic crash of 1819 brought considerable hardship to the nation, although Jackson's own life was not greatly affected--his major general's salary, paid for by the government, was stable and in fact gained value due to the deflationary conditions resulting from the depression. The cheaper cost of raw materials and labor enabled Jackson to afford some new renovations to the Hermitage.>Jackson was elected to the Senate a second time in 1823. He was not terribly enthusiastic, especially remembering the last time he was a Senator a quarter century earlier. Traveling from the Hermitage to the national capital was easier than it had been back in 1797, but still involved a long, tedious trek and Jackson was a lot older now and suffering from numerous dueling and battle injuries.>He quickly remembered why he quit the Senate the first time--not much had changed in 26 years and politics were more of the same. After the "Corrupt Bargain" of the 1824 presidential election, Jackson resigned from the Senate on October 14, 1825.
>>18496587Usury is a sin, chaim
>>18497252But enough about Lyndon B Johnson
>>18497492Usury hasn't been a sin for centuries, even the catholic church folded like a lawn chair with some cope that it's only anything over 5% specifically that is usurious
>>18497498Oh I know its just worth pointing out
>>18495903>>18496561...So Jackson learns to play politics.Next time, he's the one that the country picks!
>>18496561I think he is the earliest former president to have photographs of him while he was alive.
bumping because this is a cool series. hoping to see more infodumping about your personal favs, OP
>>18497674John Quincy Adams was the first president to be photographed.
>>18496587Andy only seems to stir this sentiment up in worthless mouths, historically speaking.
>>18496618There were like 400 total Jews in the entire country back then.
>Jackson's views on slavery were mostly pragmatic and based on his belief in popular sovereignty. If the American people should democratically decide to abolish slavery someday, then fine. If not, not.[3]
>>18496582>so maybe it is true he hated Indians and killed them out of hatred instead of any real reason?seems unlikely that a guy who hated Indians and killed them out of hatred would adopt one as his wardlet alone threehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyncoya_Jackson
Besides the duels, when he was president someone tried to assassinate him. The pistol misfired and Jackson beat the shit out of his would be assassin with his cane.
>>18498561TWO pistols misfired actually, which is even more hilarious
>>18498631they were flintlock pistols and it was a damp wintery day out
>>18498445that sounds kind of nice on paper but falls apart under scrutiny since it's implying that 80% of the population can democratically take away the rights of the other 20%
>>18498646That logic only applies if you consider Africans to be the same sort of people with the same sort of rights. Which was not a particularly popular position back then.
>>18498651You're replying to LBJfag/Tulsa Tranny, the resident blackcel troll.
