Education:
No formal education
Occupation:
Lawyer, soldier
Religion:
Presbyterian
Wife:
Rachel
Donelson Robards (1767-1828),in August 1791
and in a second ceremony on
January 17, 1794
Children:
Andrew Jackson, Jr. (adopted)
Father:
Andrew Jackson
Mother:
Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson
Years in
office:
(March 4, 1829 to March 3, 1837)
Born:
March
15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina
Died:
June
8, 1845, at the Hermitage in Nashville, Tennessee
Age at
death:
78
Elected
from:
Tennessee
Political
Party:
Democratic
Other Government
Positions:
Member of U.S. House of Representatives,
1796-97
United States Senator, 1797-98
Justice on Tennessee Supreme
Court, 1798-1804
Governor of the Florida Territory, 1821
United States
Senator, 1823-25
Presidential
Salary:
$25,000/year
Vice
President:
John C. Calhoun (1829-1832);
Martin Van Buren
(1833-1837)
Secretary of
State:
Martin Van Buren (1829-31)
Edward Livingston (1831-33)
Louis McLane (1833-34)
John Forsyth (1834-37)
Secretary of the
Treasury:
Samuel D. Ingham (1829-31)
Louis McLane (1831-33)
William J. Duane (1833)
Roger B. Taney (1833-34)
Levi Woodbury
(1834-37)
Secretary of
War:
John H. Eaton (1829-31)
Lewis Cass (1831-36)
Attorney
General:
John M. Berrien (1829-31)
Roger B. Taney (1831-33)
Benjamin F. Butler (1833-37)
Postmaster
General:
William T. Barry (1829-35)
Amos Kendall (1835-37)
Secretary of the
Navy:
John Branch (1829-31)
Levi Woodbury (1831-34)
Mahlon
Dickerson (1834-37)
Links /
Resources:
The White
House
PO Box 1427