In 1828, with the backing of his new party, Andrew Jackson ran for the presidency once again. Jackson handily beat Adams in the election and went on to become the nation’s seventh president.

But if Trump declined to condemn calls for violence against his vice president, an earlier president went further. In the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson - whom Trump has repeatedly said he ...

Jackson, in turn, believed that Randolph was the tool of political opponents, including his former vice president, John C. Calhoun, conspiring to derail the agenda of his second term.

Martin Van Buren, while serving as vice president to President Andrew Jackson, ran for president in 1836 and won. And in 1988, Vice President George H. W. Bush ran for president and won.

In 1828, with the backing of his new party, Andrew Jackson ran for the presidency once again. Jackson handily beat Adams in the election and went on to become the nation’s seventh president.

This feisty general known as “Old Hickory” became the nation’s seventh president. Andrew Jackson was born in the Carolinas, in 1767. During the Revolutionary War, when he was 13, … ...

President Andrew Jackson, Courtesy: Library of Congress. Terms: 1829-1837 Political Party: Democrat First Lady: Rachel Donelson Jackson Vice President: John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren.

Martin Van Buren, who served as vice president to Andrew Jackson during his second term, became president himself in 1837 and was in the role for four years.

This much is true: Andrew Jackson, who was president from 1829-1837, helped to avert a plausible civil war, generations before the actual one. In the 1830's, South Carolina insisted on its right ...

Andrew Jackson blamed his wife's death on the critics who hit their marriage during the 1828 campaign. ... vice president of museum services and chief curator of the Hermitage.