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Category Archives: Andrew Jackson
G.P.A. Healy and the Portraits of Presidents
The Young Artist George Peter Alexander (usually known as G.P.A.) Healy was definitely born poor in 1813 to Irish immigrants in Boston. A bit late to his calling, he was sixteen when he first picked up a brush, but the … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Chester Arthur, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, James K. Polk, John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S. Grant
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American artist G.P.A. Healy, American artist Jane Stuart, American history, Charles Willson Peale, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady Sarah Polk, Former President John Q. Adams, G.P.A. Healy, GIlbert Stuart, Healy painting of The Peacemakers, history, King Louis Philippe of France, President Abraham Lincoln, President Andrew Jackson, President Chester Alan Arthur, President Franklin Pierce, President James Buchanan, President James K. Polk, President John Tyler, President Millard Fillmore, President Ulysses S. Grant, Presidential history, Robert Todd Lincoln, US history, White House history
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Andrew Jackson’s Magnificent Truxton
Andrew Jackson loved horses since early boyhood AJ: Rider and Racer The story of 12-year-old Andrew Jackson serving as messenger in the Continental Army and later captured and imprisoned is true, told in every history book. Besides his daring and … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Andrew Jackson
Tagged "Old Hickory", American history, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Jackson in Tennessee, Andrew Jackson purchases Truxton, Andrew Jackson's horses, Andrew Jackson's racehorse Greyhound, Andrew Jackson's racehorse Truxton, Clover Bottom Racetrack, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, Horseracing in early Tennessee, John Verrell's horse Truxton, Nashville TN history, President Andrew Hackson, Presidential history, US history, White House history
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Martin Van Buren: The Irony of 1840
8th POTUS Martin Van Buren is vaguely remembered today, but…. …he holds a few interesting distinctions. Born in 1782, he was the first President who was not born a British subject. He was the only President who learned another language … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison
Tagged American history, Andrew Jackson, Feather Schwartz Foster, General William Henry Harrison, Henry Clay, history, Jacksonian Democrats, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, President Martin Van Buren, Presidential history, Secretary of State Martin Van Buren, The 4-way race for President in 1824, The Albany Regency, The election of 1840, The Little Magician, The Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign of 1840, The Sly Fox of Kinderhook, The Whig Party, US history, Vice President Martin Van Buren, White House history, William Crawford, William Henry Harrison
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The Monroe Plateau
…Arguably the second oldest permanent possession of the White House… The Return of the White House Shortly after Dolley Madison “rescued” the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington (the oldest possession) in 1814, British soldiers torched the White House, as … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, James Monroe, Martin Van Buren
Tagged American history, Dining at the White House, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, Feather Schwartz Foster, George Washington, Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Washington, history, James Monroe, Monroe Plateau, President Andrew Jackson, President James Monroe, President Martin Van Buren, Presidential entertaining, Presidential history, The Monroe Plateau, The White House, US history, White House history
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The Assassination Attempt on Andrew Jackson
Political assassination has been around since Biblical times, if not longer. Andrew Jackson: Public Figure Andrew Jackson had been in the public eye since he was in his early twenties. As a Tennessee lawyer, planter, speculator, horseracer, duelist and legislator, … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Andrew Jackson, Nifty History People
Tagged "Old Hickory", American history, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Jackson as assassination target, Assassination attempt by Richard Lawrence, Attorney Francis Scott Key, Feather Schwartz Foster, Francis Scott Key, General Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, history, Jackson and the Bank of the United States, Jackson foe Henry Clay, Jackson foe John C. Calhoun, Jackson's attempted assassination, John C. Calhoun, President Andrew Jackson, Presidential history, Richard Lawrence assassin, US history, Whig Senator George Poindexter, White House history
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The Jackson-Hayes-Clinton Connection
Losing a father as a boy is not unusual. Losing a father before you are born is VERY unusual. Posthumous Children Posthumous children, those whose fathers die before the child is born is rare – even in an age when … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Andrew Jackson, Rutherford Hayes
Tagged American history, Andrew Jackson, Bill Clinton, Feather Schwartz Foster, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, GHW Bush, Hayes Uncle Sardis Birchard, history, Posthumous Presidents, President Andrew Jackson, President Bill Clinton, President Clinton, President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush, President Hayes, President Jackson, President Rutherford B. Hayes, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherford Hayes, Sardis Birchard, US history, William Clinton, William J. Clinton
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Andrew Jackson Introduces the Polks
James Knox Polk and his wife, Sarah Childress, had a match made by none other than General Andrew Jackson himself. James K. Polk: Young Attorney James Knox Polk (1795-1849) was North Carolina born, but Tennessee raised and matured. An unimposing … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk
Tagged American history, Andrew Jackson, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies history, First Lady Sarah Polk, General Andrew Jackson, history, James and Sarah Polk, James K. Polk, James Knox Polk, James Polk, Presidential history, Sarah Childress Polk, Sarah Polk, Speaker of the House James K. Polk, US history
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Andrew Jackson and The Peggy Eaton Affair
Andrew Jackson came to Washington wearing a mourning band. His beloved wife Rachel had died only weeks before his inauguration in 1829. Jackson believed his sixty-one-year old wife was killed by the poisoned arrow of slander and calumny. (That she … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Andrew Jackson, Nifty History People
Tagged American history, Andrew Jackson, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, Margaret Eaton, Peggy Eaton, Peggy O'Neale TImberlake, President Andrew Jackson, Presidential history, Rachel Jackson, Senator John Eaton, the Peggy Eaton Affair, the Petticoat Affair, US history, VP John C. Calhoun, White House history
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