Andrew Jackson’s campaigns for president in the 1820s betray many parallels with today’s tea party movement. Jackson displayed the same strong desire for less government, faith in private ...

The choice to adopt the name of the British political party that opposed monarchical absolution was a not-very-subtle dig at Jackson, who the Whigs styled "King Andrew the First." Rhetorically ...

Like Jackson, Trump reshaped his party. In many ways, though, Trump more closely resembles Jackson than the scandal-plagued Nixon. Following his narrow defeat in the controversial 1824 election ...

The Democratic party is the oldest existing political party in America. Democrats have won 19 of 42 presidential elections since the party first ran a presidential candidate (Andrew Jackson) in 1828.

Inconveniently, Jackson was long a Democratic icon, nominated for his second term in 1832 by the first Democratic National Convention, and there is something to be said for the man who founded what is ...

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.” ...

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." ...

Trump has survived by – consciously or not – following the example of another American president who created a political party in his own image and used it to rule almost unchecked: Andrew ...

In 2020, the Jackson City Council voted to remove the Andrew Jackson statue in a 5-1 vote. ... He founded the Democratic Party for heavens sake, the oldest political party on the planet." ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president.