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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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His paternal ancestors 'disappeared' or intermarried with whites rather than move to Oklahoma during Andrew Jackson's relocation program for Cherokees and associated tribes.
Congress enacted Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act and the state of Mississippi passed statutes that abolished the Chickasaw tribal government and tribal laws.
First Seminole War – Andrew Jackson's army destroys crops, steals livestock, and destroys Negro forts in the Apalachicola and Suwannee River regions.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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These loyalists, descendents of Andrew Jackson's troops who settled in the northern hills of Alabama, strove to preserve their independence and their Union after Alabama seceded in 1861.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Andrew Jackson's military glory (until he singlehandedly won the War of 1812, which would be awesome if it didn't involve the wholeslaughter of a bunch of British men fighting for something they didn't really care about) was premised upon crushing nation after nation of Indians in the South and West.
Here Andrew Jackson's Tennessee and Kentucky Commands rested on their way to join him in his Coast Campaign in the War of 1812 during which second struggle for American Independence Mississippi took a heroic part.
It was also from Negril that in 1814 the British expeditionary force reached New Orleans where they were defeated by Andrew Jackson two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent had already ended the 1812 war.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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New Orleans is the scene of Andrew Jackson's great victory at the close of the War of 1812 [after the Treaty of Paris was signed, but before the news reached America], in which small naval forces under Commodore David Patterson played a large role.
Andrew Jackson was married at Springfield 2 miles west, and the Tennessee and Kentucky troops came over this road on their march to join him in his Gulf Coast Campaign during the War of 1812.
General Thomas Hinds, Commander of Andrew Jackson's Cavalry, Battle of New Orleans, was a member fo the commission that laid out the City and selected this location for the Capitol Building.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Though corporations have neither bodies to be kicked nor souls to be damned, as President Andrew Jackson's supporters liked to say, Nader and Green tried at least to devise new mechanisms of accountability to curb irresponsible corporate behavior.
President Andrew Jackson urges Congress to allow DC residents to elect a nonvoting delegate to that body "with the same privileges that are allowed to other territories of the United States.
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