... II. Background A. Education 1. Jackson's mother wanted him to become a Presbyterian minister. 2. From the ages 8-13 he learned the fundamentals and studied the classics under first Dr. William Humphries and then Reverend James White Stephenson. Jackson was not a good student and didn't want to enter the clergy. 3. Began to study at the New Acquisition School under Robert McCulloch. 4.(1784-1786) ... those in the Kitchen Cabinet were Amos Kendall, partisan journalist, and later postmaster general; Francis P. Blair, editor of the Washington Globe; Andrew Jackson Donelson, the president's ...

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