Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. He is known for founding the Democratic Party and for his support of individual liberty

• Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress.
• Born: March 15, 1767, Waxhaws
• Died: June 8, 1845, The Hermitage, Nashville, TN
• Presidential term: March 4, 1829 – March 4, 1837
• Nicknames: King Mob, The Hero of New Orleans, Old Hickory
• Children: Lyncoya Jackson, Daniel Smith Donelson
• Vice presidents: John C. Calhoun (1829–1832), Martin Van Buren (1833–1837)
• First president to pay off the entire national debt.
• First president born in a log cabin.
• First president born in the Carolinas (Place of birth disputed between North and South Carolina).
• First president born to immigrant parents.
• First president born after the death of his father.
• First president to be a Presbyterian.
• First president elected as Democrat to the presidency.
• First president to have been a major general.
• First president to be inaugurated at the East Portico of the United States Capitol Building.
• First president to marry a divorced woman.
• First president to kill someone in a duel.
• First president to be targeted by an assassin.
• First president to be older than his predecessor.
• First president to ride on a railroad train.
• First president to appoint a Catholic (Roger Taney) to the Supreme Court.
• First president to be elected by white men of all classes in 1828 after most laws barring non-land-owners from voting were repealed.
• First president whose home state was not also his birth state (His birth state is disputed between North and South Carolina, while he resided in Tennessee at the time of his election).
• First president to be an orphan.
• First president to have had a vice president resign (John C. Calhoun in 1832).
• First president to be censured by the US Senate, although it was expunged in 1837.
• First president to win a plurality of the vote in three consecutive elections (1824, 1828, & 1832).