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

It took Jackson until his second term to control his administration and his party in Congress, and historians have overstated his political ascendancy in labeling his times “the Jacksonian era.” ...

By warning of the threat oligarchy poses to the country, President Joe Biden tapped into a Democratic Party tradition begun ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched ... the 2016 presidential campaign as Democrats cast off Jackson and Thomas Jefferson from state party fundraising dinners in search of less controversial ...

Legacy Andrew Jackson is of the most portrayed chief executives in the history of presidential portraiture, reflecting his stature as a military hero and an authoritative leader. Caricaturists ...

To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...

We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...

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

The donkey and elephant became political symbols in the United ... The donkey first became associated with the Democratic Party during Andrew Jackson's presidential campaign in 1828.

By the early 19th century, rivalries among political factions in the new government ... With the realization of an in-and-out party system in the era of Andrew Jackson, advocacy replaced commemoration ...