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Sally Gardner is a British children's literature writer and illustrator. She won both the Costa Book Award for Children's Book and the Carnegie Medal for Maggot Moon (Hot Key Books, 2012). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Under her pseudonym Wray Delaney she has also written adult novels.
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.
Andrew Jackson, 1819 portrait in oil paint by Samuel Lovett Waldo (Metropolitan Museum of Art object 06.197) Andrew Jackson, later seventh president of the United States, was involved in a series of altercations in his personal and professional life. Jackson killed a man, was shot in a duel (in 1806), was shot in a tavern brawl (in 1813), and ...
Dr. Daniel Feller, professor of history and editor/director, The Papers of Andrew Jackson, reads a passage in 2016 from the 13th volume, a thick book covering the year of 1831.
Earliest portrait of Jackson painted "from life," believed to have been created 1815 by New Orleans artist Nathan Wheeler. This is a list of legal cases involving Andrew Jackson, who became the 7th U.S. president in 1828. State of Tennessee v. Andrew Jackson (1806) - assault and battery against Thomas Baird, found guilty, fined [1]: 535
This is a list of people for whom Andrew Jackson, seventh U.S. president, acted as pater familias or served as a guardian, legal or otherwise. As Tennessee history writer Stanley Horn put it in 1938, "Jackson's friends had a habit of dying, and leaving their orphans to his care."
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The reported motive for the attack was an unpaid debt; Andrew Jackson was acquitted of the charge in November 1807. [216] [h] In March 1808, John McNairy sued Andrew Jackson and his brother-in-law John Caffery, as a pair. [222] According to descendants, Caffrey worked for Jackson in Natchez "in the mercantile business."