In an otherwise excellent column (“Trump’s Echo of 1829,” op-ed, Feb. 27) Karl Rove contends that President Andrew ... 1828. It was a major issue in that year’s election that swept Jackson ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with ... woman," the Massachusetts Journal thundered in an 1828 editorial. Throughout the election, Jackson tried to shield Rachel, who already loathed the ...

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 ...

Cumberland University history professor Mark Cheathem provided a brief overview of the early months of President Andrew Jackson's first term in 1829.

The 1828 presidential campaign ... in the lives of citizens, a practice Jackson detested more than any other. Ultimately, Jackson signed a surplus bill which would distribute the money among the ...

By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune Two hundred years ago this month, President John Quincy Adams took the oath of ...

Describe the outcome of the “special election” and why Jackson and his supporters called it a “subversion of democracy.” ...

But who could blame him? In the wake of former President Andrew Jackson's 1828 election victory over then sitting President John Quincy Adams, Rachel Jackson \-- his wife -- died of a heart attack.

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 ...

Andrew Jackson is known for being a statesman first ... Two decades after he sent the petition, he won the 1828 election and became the seventh president of the United States.