Showing posts with label Andrew Jackson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrew Jackson. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Ulysses S. Grant

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Born April 27, 1822
Birth PlacePoint Pleasant, Ohio
Birth nameHiram Ulysses Grant
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)Julia Dent Grant
OccupationGeneral-in-Chief
ReligionMethodist
DiedJuly 23, 1885
Death PlaceMount McGregor, New York

Ulysses S. Grant was served as the 18th President of the United States. He is a military commander through the Civil War and post war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army overcome the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America. Fighting in the Mexican American War, he was a close viewer of the techniques of Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott. He became the first president to provide two full terms since Andrew Jackson did so forty years earlier. He led renovation by signing and enforcing civil rights laws and fighting Ku Klux Klan violence. He absent office at the low point of his popularity. In 1880 he made an ineffective bid for a third presidential term. In 1884, broke and dying of cancer, he wrote his extremely successful memoirs.

Monday, August 2, 2010

James K. Polk

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Born

November 2, 1795


Birth Place

Pineville, North


Political party

Democratic


Spouse(s)

Sarah Childress Polk


Occupation

Lawyer, Farmer


Religion

Methodist


Died

June 15, 1849


Death Place

Nashville, Tennessee



James Knox Polk was served as the 11th President of the United States. A firm follower of Andrew Jackson, Polk was the last strong pre-Civil War president. Polk is renowned for his foreign policy successes. He is more famous for foremost the nation into the Mexican American War, in which the US was victorious. As president, Polk "extended the Union by settling claims to Texas and the Oregon Territory and by acquiring California and the Southwest". Polk signed the Walker Tariff that brings an era of nearly free trade to the country until 1861.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Martin Van Buren

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Born

December 5, 1782


Birth Place

Kinderhook, New York


Political party

Democratic-Republican,


Democratic, and Free Soil


Spouse(s)

Hannah Van Buren


Occupation

Lawyer


Religion

Dutch Reformed


Died

July 24, 1862


Death Place

Kinderhook, New York



Martin Van Buren was serves as the eighth President of the United States also the 10th Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson.He was a key manager of the Democratic Party. He was the first president to be born an American resident. He is the only president not to have speak English as his first language, having grown up speaking Dutch. He was the initial president from New York. He also was one of the central figures in rising modern political organizations. He is one of only two people, the extra being Thomas Jefferson, to serve as Secretary of State, Vice President and President.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Andrew Jackson

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Born

March 15, 1767


Birth Place

Waxhaws area


Nationality

American


Political party

Democratic-Republican and


Democratic


Spouse(s)

Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson


Occupation

Prosecutor, Judge, Farmer, Soldier


Religion

Presbyterian


Died

June 8, 1845


Death Place

Nashville, Tennessee




Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States. He was military governor of pre-admission Florida, commander of the American services at the Battle of New Orleans, and eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy. His legacy is now seen as mixed, as a guard of popular democracy and individual liberty for American citizens, checkered by his support for slavery and Indian removal. Famous for his toughness, he was nicknamed "Old Hickory". As he based his career in developing Tennessee, Jackson was the first president primarily related with the American frontier.