Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

They remind us that our politics have always been messy and sometimes bloody. Do not weep for Andrew Jackson. He had a good run on the money.

President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old ... In 1836 a budget surplus of approximately 20 million dollars genuinely perplexed Jackson. Jackson signed a surplus bill which distributed the money among the states ...

It would also have been deemed irresponsible to refund the money to the states or the people with instructions ... Legacy In the genre of presidential portraiture, Andrew Jackson has been one of the ...

For much of the American public however, Jackson's reputation was built not on money matters but on a lady's honor. When Peggy Eaton, the wife of the secretary of war, was snubbed by other wives ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple words and two dates: "General Andrew Jackson, March 15, 1767 -- June 8, 1845." The inscription on the marker for the President's beloved wife ...