March 15 Andrew Old Hickory
Our Federal Union: It must and shall be preserved!
Andrew Jackson’s Toast on Jefferson’s Birthday
I want to say that Andrew Jackson was a Tennessean; but Andrew Jackson was an American, and there is not a State in this Nation that cannot claim him, that has not the right to claim him as a national hero....
I should not say that Old Hickory was faultless. I do not know very many strong men that have not got some of the defects of their qualities. But Andrew Jackson was as upright a Patriot, as honest a man, as fearless a gentleman, as ever any Nation had in public or private life.
President Theodore Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson was born in the Carolinas, March 15, 1767
Won the Battle of Talladega against the Creeks, 1813
Won the Battle of New Orleans against the British, January 8, 1815
Was made Governor of Florida, 1821
Was elected President, 1828; again, 1832
He died, June 8, 1845
He is sometimes called “Old Hickory”