Today is the 169th anniversary of the death of Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, who died on June 8, 1845. He was a formidable force in his day. Besides being a two term president (from 1829 to 1837), he was also a lawyer, an army general famous for his defeats of the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814,
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