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Definition of Andrew jackson

1. Noun. 7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845).

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Literary usage of Andrew jackson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897 by United States President (1897)
"andrew jackson. WASHINGTON, January 19, 1833. To the Senate and House of ... andrew jackson. [The same message was sent to the House of Representatives. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"PRESIDENT andrew jackson. EVERYBODY who knows anything about the American Republic knows that, for the first half of the years which this century counts, ..."

3. Calendar of Papers in Washington Archives Relating to the Territories of the by David W. Parker (1911)
"andrew jackson to Maj. Henry Stanton. Instructions on transportation of Spanish ... andrew jackson." 1297 nd, np Inventory of provisions furnished by Maj. ..."

4. Beginnings of the American People by Carl Lotus Becker (1915)
"EXPANSION AND CONFLICT CHAPTER I andrew jackson "LET the people ride "—such was the reply that andrew jackson made to the coalition of Henry Clay and John ..."

5. The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans: With Biographical by H. J. Herring, James Barton Longacre (1854)
"andrew jackson was born on the March,, in Waxsaw, South Carolina, a settlement whither his family had emigrated from Ireland two years previous. ..."

6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... with mere wonder the fact that during a period when Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Wirt, and Preston were on the public stage, andrew jackson should have been ..."

7. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-, Martha Joanna Lamb, John Austin Stevens, Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1892)
"It opened about Jackson, through my remark that some late writers placed Andrew Jackson and David Crockett in the same rank. ..."

8. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1905)
"andrew jackson TO JAMES MONROE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE OF 1817. ... Serv JAMES MONROE President of the U. States andrew jackson [Endorsed by Monroe:] ..."

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