Old Hickory Productions- First Person Portrayals of Andrew Jackson

During his lifetime, he was more popular than George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
He reshaped and redirected the course of American expansion and democracy.
His overwhelming victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 gave the country much needed national pride and identity, earned us respect in Europe and reinforced our independence from Great Britain.
He was the first President of the United States to come from humble beginnings unlike the previous Presidents with aristocratic backgrounds.
He and his political organization created the Democratic party as we know it today.
He expanded presidential powers through the use of the veto. He used the veto more than all past presidents combined. He increased the power of the chief executive to control and direct the operation of the Congress.
He was the first president to interpret that the Constitution's intent was that the United States was "indivisible". He stated that secession by states because of a grievance could not be invoked. President Lincoln used the reasoning from Jackson's Proclamation of 1832 during the secession crisis of 1861.
The national debt was paid off during his presidency in 1835.
He was the first president to experience an attempted assassination on January 30, 1835.
He was involved in two pistol duels, two gunfights and was wounded twice.