Andrew Jackson was the
son of Irish immigrants, and during the War of Independence lost all his
family, nevertheless, finished the Right race in Carolina of the North
and went to look for fortune in the West. Once there, he
was a lawyer, he managed to have many assets, he was part of the high
society, he obtained positions as prosecutor and judge; and made Tennessee the sixteenth State of the Union; and was named national hero by successfully defending New Orleans, in the second war with Britain. Among
the many things he did as president of the United States, Jackson kept
politics within his democratic sense of the frontier, he confronted the
great capitalists, for he distrusted them; already by the year 1828 it was seen like a martyr of the democracy and represented the man of the town.