To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...

The return of the portrait of the seventh president is a reminder of certain resemblances between the two. Jackson's demeanor ...

In some circumstances, a president’s official Farewell Address to the Nation may be an occasion for sunny reflection. President Joe Biden’s, delivered five days before he left office, began that way, ...

It took Jackson until his second term to control his administration and his party in Congress, and historians have overstated his political ascendancy in labeling his times "the Jacksonian era." ...

While his use of the symbol died down, the donkey would later become a symbol of the new Democratic Party ... Andrew Jackson is of the most portrayed chief executives in the history of presidential ...

In 1836 they threw their support behind Andrew Jackson's successor ... Birney The Liberty Party was the political outgrowth of the growing anti-slavery movement. It had been born in 1839, when ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 Laura Kiniry Travel Correspondent Andrew Jackson was exiting the U.S ...

By the early 19th century, rivalries among political factions in the new government led to the creation ... With the realization of an in-and-out party system in the era of Andrew Jackson, advocacy ...

Born: March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina... Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, and his populist appeal lay in his message of inclusion against what he characterized ...