A famous southern magnolia tree thought to have been planted by President Andrew Jackson at the White House nearly 200 years ...

Andrew Jackson was the first president to defy the US supreme court. The question is whether Donald Trump will take a leaf ...

A tree almost two centuries old and said to be planted by former President Andrew Jackson is set to be removed from the grounds of the White House.

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental Army and discovered a future in the military. Promoted to general during the War of 1812 ... of the Second National Bank. After the White House ...

Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson’s birth. One of ...

Whigs in Congress proved to be major opponents in their attempts to pass legislation which Jackson believed favored the elite, including a bill to renew the charter for the Second Bank of the United .

When Whigs in Congress brought up a bill to charter the Second Bank ... Jackson's reputation was built not on money matters but on a lady's honor. When Peggy Eaton, the wife of the secretary of ...