Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 and died in 1845. As he grew up he was living in poverty. But later in his life he became wealthy as a very good Tennessee lawyer. And from that practice of being a lawyer, he started getting interested in the government and became a young politician in 1812. But he started being a politician when war broke with the US and Britain. He earned a lot of national fame because of his leadership in the conflict of the war and became a military hero. He is also soon to be Americas most influential and polizing political figure in the 1820s. he also just barely beat John Quincy Adams in the election in 1824. Four years later he came back and soundly defeated Adams and becoming the seventh president of the united states
