Andrew Jackson's Qualifications and Background for President
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Of Scottish-Irish descent, Andrew Jackson was one of the most fascinating and complex presidents in American history. Born three weeks after his father died in the Waxhaw area of the border between North and South Carolina 1767, the young Jackson received a sporadic education but had enough legal training to practice "frontier law" successfully by the time he was twenty-one (Andrew, 2008, p. 2). A military and political career would soon follow. Jackson's tenure as president coincided with the rise of capitalism, the rise of urbanism, enormous social and economic change, and an era of political upheaval. Ultimately many of Jackson's less flattering qualities would be used against him, but at all times his will to lead never dampened. As H.W. Brands (2006) writes, "He was a born leader who couldn't make himself into a follower" (p. 97). This biography will focus on Jackson tenure as president and the character and leadership qualities of America's seventh president. The life of Andrew Jackson before his two terms of office as President included a military career with service in the War of 1812 and the Seminole Wars (Andrew, 2008). Jackson served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, and for the state of Tennessee a term as a member of the House of Representatives followed by a term as a U.S. Senator (Andrew, 2008). In 1821 he served as 1st Territorial Governor of Florida, before being elected as the 7th President of the U.S. for two
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a full blown war during Jackson's tenure in office. In this battle Jackson showed the character Burstein (2004) maintains was humorless, prone to revenge, driven by rage, operated on the fringes of the law, and was prone to use politics as a tool for revenge to right what he felt were personal slights. The banking crisis pitted Jackson against the powerful Second Bank of the United States, which was authorized for a two decade period by James Madison in 1816 (Andrew, 2008, p. 7). Morris (2008) claims that Jackson's popularity "soared" with Americans who viewed him as taking on the "monster" bank (p. 9). After a titanic battle, Jackson vetoed the bank's re-charter by Congress in 1832 and withdrew U.S. funds. This war without bullets shows Burstein's (2004) assessment that it appeared to some that "Jackson considered himself God. If so he would have been a wrathful God. For there was contained in Jackson an extraordinary rage, a taste for revenge, that burst easily when he felt possessed of the might he needed to see his will fulfilled" (p. 235).
Indian removal was another major issue during Jackson's presidency. The Indian Removal Act by Andrew Jackson and the infamous long walk or "trail of tears" was a disaster
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