- The first president to have an assassination attempt on his life.
- His opponents once called him a "jackass" so he adopted that animal as the mascot of the Democratic party.
- He very nearly beat his attempted killer to death with his cane. The only reason he didn't is he was restrained from doing so.
- The only president to leave office with a surplus of money in the federal government.
- His parents were immigrants from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Scholars have found Jackson to be the only U.S. President (so far) to have both foreign-born parents.
- He was the first President not to be born into a wealthy family.
- Arkansas and Michigan were added to the Union during his Presidency.
- He is seen as the first Populist President who built his policies predominantly around what he felt was the will of the common man, even against the interest of large businesses and institutions, and who made an effort to show the voters that he was like Them in his speech and clothing, a style of campaigning that would be utilized by every Presidential candidate since.
- Seventh President of the United States (4 March 1829 - 4 March 1837).
- U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1797-1798, 1823-1825).
- U.S. Representative from Tennessee (1796-1797).
- His face has appeared on the front side of the United States twenty dollar bill since 1928.
- He and his wife Rachel Donelson first married in 1792, however they had to remarry two years later when Rachel discovered that she was still legally married to her first husband.
- Irish-American.
- Was one of the founders of the Democratic Party.
- Spoke Spanish.
- Was known to be extremely defensive of his wife Rachel.
- After he died, someone asked one of his servants if they thought Andrew Jackson had gone to heaven. To which the servant replied: "If General Jackson wants to go to heaven, who's going to stop him?".
- He vetoed more bills than the six Presidents before him combined.
- He and his wife Rachel adopted two sons: Andrew Jackson Jr. (1804-1865) & Lyncoya Jackson (1811-1828). Lyncoya was an orphaned Creek Native American boy who died of tuberculosis at the age of 13. He was buried at an unmarked grave at the Jackson Family Cemetery.
- He was known for having a very short temper.
- Is the only one of the six consecutive presidents from Thomas Jefferson to Martin Van Buren who did not previously serve as Secretary of State.
- He was the least political of the four Presidential candidates in the 1824 election. His opponents were Secretary of State John Quincy Adams (who won), Secretary of Treasury William Crawford and Speaker of the House of Representatives Henry Clay. Oddly, at the next election in 1828, Jackson got elected President.
- He and fellow President Andrew Johnson, are separated by just three letters in their names. Of U.S. Presidents, this is the closest without having the same first and last names.
- As his wife, Rachel died in-between his election win and inauguration, she is thus-far the only woman in United States history to have been only a "First Lady-elect".
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