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7th President of the USA Date of Birth: 15.03.1767 Country: USA

Biography of Andrew Jackson

Early Life

Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States, was born on March 15, 1767, in Waxhaws settlement in South Carolina (now North Carolina).

He studied law in Salisbury, North Carolina, from 1784 to 1787 and later became a district prosecutor in the area that later became Tennessee. In 1788, he settled in Nashville.

Political Career

Jackson served as a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1796 and became the first representative of Tennessee in Congress.

He also served as a U.S. Senator from 1797 to 1798.

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Jackson was a major general in the state militia and was known as a conservative Jeffersonian Republican. After moving to Tennessee, he got married and lived on a plantation near the Cumberland River until 1804, when he resigned and settled in Hermitage near Nashville.

He avoided active public life for eight years.

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