Andrew Jackson: U.S. leader, slave owner

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Bay State Banner
10-15-1998
Andrew Jackson: U.S. leader, slave owner

Andre Worthy

The new $20 bill will continue to bear the portrait of Andrew Jackson on the front of the note. Jackson, a founder of the Democratic Party, was a frontier lawyer, army general, Florida governor, Tennessee congressman and backwoods judge.

Born the son of poor Irish immigrants, Jackson, a Carolina native, was a hot-tempered brawler who overcame his lack of a college education and rose to become the seventh President of the United States.

Jackson was also a slave owner whose Tennessee estate, located 13 miles from ...

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