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

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as ...

The 1828 election was seen as a rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; the latter won, in part, because of the “Corrupt Bargain” election of 1824. Challenges In Congress, “Whigs,” as ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with ... Journal thundered in an 1828 editorial. Throughout the election, Jackson tried to shield Rachel, who already loathed the idea of leaving the Hermitage ...

Frustrated by what he considered a stolen election, Jackson ran again and won in a landslide in 1828. His connection to the working man ensured him reelection to a second term in 1832. After his ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as ...

Jackson's first election was opposed by his four living predecessors, as Trump's was by his five. But Jackson was the first and so far only president who determined his party's presidential ...