One of three children (all boys), Jackson grew up in near-poverty and received very little schooling as a child. His older brother Hugh died ... during the American Revolution in 1779. Andrew, then ...

In what is today known as the Trail of Tears, members of the Cherokee Nation were rounded up and transplanted westward by military force in 1838 under Jackson’s successor Martin Van Buren. Legacy In ...

Andrew Jackson won another girls’ basketball state championship in dominant fashion Saturday. The high school in Lancaster County routed Eau Claire, 89-36, in the South Carolina Class 2A title ...