One of three children (all boys), Jackson grew up in near-poverty ... The 1828 election was seen as a rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; the latter won, in part, because of the ...

Andrew Jackson lay gasping in his bed at home in ... Lyncoya, found next to the child’s dead mother on a battlefield, as well as several nephews. He was a savage swearer of oaths, “a barbarian ...