After serving as Tennessee prosecutor, judge, congressman, and senator, he won fame as a major general in the War of 1812 with smashing victories against the Creek Indians in 1814 and the British at New Orleans in January 1815. n a confused, four-candidate presidential race in 1824, Jackson led the popular and electoral vote but lost in the House of Representatives, through the influence of Speaker Henry Clay, to John Quincy Adams. Jackson challenged Adams again in 1828 and defeated him in a campaign which centered on Jackson's image as a man of the people battling aristocracy and corruption. This election would prove to be contentious. Andrew Jackson would blame his opponent, John Quincy Adams, for the death of his wife, holding the verbal attacks made by Adams and his political allies responsible for her passing. On March 4, 1829, Andrew Jackson took the oath of office, the first president to take the oath on the east front portico of the U.S. Capitol. Annual salary was $25,000. He would serve 2 terms as president from 1829 to 1837. On March 4, 1837, Andrew Jackson's tenure as president would end. On March 4, 1837, he died at 78 years of age at the Hermitage in Nashville, Tennessee.
Andrew Jackson's Administration
First Lady: none - widowed before taking office
Vice Presidents:
Martin Van Buren (1833-1837)
Secretaries of State:
Edward Livingston (1831-33)
Louis McLane (1833-34)
John Forsyth (1834-37)
Secretaries of the Treasury:
Louis McLane (1831-33)
William J. Duane (1833)
Roger B. Taney (1833-34)
Levi Woodbury (1834-37)
Secretaries of War:
Lewis Cass (1831-36)
Attorneys General:
Roger B. Taney (1831-33)
Benjamin F. Butler (1833-37)
Postmasters General:
Amos Kendall (1835-37)
Secretaries of the Navy:
Levi Woodbury (1831-34)
Mahlon Dickerson (1834-37)
Inaugural Information
Twelfth Inaugural Ceremonies, March 4, 1833
For more information on President Andrew Jackson, check out these resources...
Andrew Jackson, White House
American President: Andrew Jackson, Miller Center, University of Virginia
Andrew Jackson, POTUS, Internet Public Library
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil, and the Presidency, PBS
The Hermitage: Home of Andrew Jackson
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