Andrew Jackson was born in Waxhaw Settlement, South Carolina on March 15, 1767. His parents Andrew Jackson (father) and Elizabeth Hutchington (mother) had three children together. They were Hugh Jackson, Andrew Jackson, and another Robert Jackson. In Jackson's childhood, he had a bad reputation because he had a quick temper. He grew up with people who were ready to fight at any time to defend their honor. He later became known to do the same for himself. Whenever a boy

Over the next four years the current administration built a strong political machine with nationalistic policies and a lack of concern of states rights. In 1828 through a campaign filled with mud slinging on both sides. Jackson also feared that the peoples slander of his wife is what killed her before she could become first lady. Jackson would hold grudges against many for this. Through all of this Andrew Jackson became the seventh President to the United States. Instead of the normal cabinet made up by the president, he relied more on an informal group of newspaper writers and northern politicians who had worked for his election. These people became known as the Kitchen cabinet. They were immortalized in a picture in which they were all sitting around a table spitting tobacco. This made him more in contact with the people of the United States, more in contact with the public opinion and feelings toward national issues. This is why some would call this election of 1828 a revolution. He was the first person to be elected to the presidency that was born in a log cabin. People liked him because he was normal person who grew up in America. President Jackson developed the system of "rotation in office." This was used to protect the American people from a development of a long-standing political group by removing long-term office holders. His enemies accused him of corruption of civil service for political reasons. However, it may have been used to insure loyalty of the people in his administration.

He died on June 8, 1845 on his plantation, the Hermitage, in Nashville Tennessee. Andrew Jackson was the first "peoples president." This comes from his youth in a frontier territory and his "people qualities" which helped him to be more touch with the people of the United States, and therefore the people of the United States took a more active role in the Government. He even went so far as to call himself the elected representative of All-American people. I think that Jackson's strengthening of the powers of the presidency is the biggest influence to this day. He used the power of the veto 12 times (more times than all of his successors combined). And his use of the powers of removal and of executive orders made a standard for a modern American Presidency. Before any research or reading was done about Jackson I thought Jackson was a mean tempered Indian fighter who found his way to office because he took over Florida and defended New Orleans successfully. But I grew to learn that he was really a great president and did a lot for the presidency of the United States of America and paved the way for many great future presidents.

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