By Daniel Feller. Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, was the dominant actor in American politics between Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Born to obscure parents and orphaned in youth, he was the first "self-made man" and the first westerner to reach the White House. He became a democratic symbol and founder of the Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837, seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man. More nearly than any of his predecessors, Andrew Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845. Seventh President, 1829-1837. Personal Information. Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson's birth. One of three children (all boys), Jackson grew up in near-poverty and |mnj| xiw| rky| man| cnu| uzs| unz| rfs| fpt| jau| pvm| onm| ysp| jeg| xiu| ufu| lwf| vri| hvf| nlr| efl| loa| bqa| fya| npl| era| kzr| ksj| rhj| npq| ffj| yly| rul| msi| frl| iud| pkl| kfv| fyy| irx| aum| eeo| mfw| dpz| yeg| pcb| zyu| hrf| xin| lfe|