More nearly than any of his predecessors, Andrew Jackson was elected by popular vote; as President he sought to act as the direct representative of the common man. Born in a backwoods settlement in the Carolinas in 1767, he received sporadic education. But in his late teens he read law for about two years, and he became an outstanding young lawyer in Tennessee. Fiercely jealous of his honor, he engaged in brawls, and in a duel …showed first 75 words of 894 total…

…showed last 75 words of 894 total…Hickory" retired to the Hermitage. Andrew Jackson was also the first president to have an assanation attempted. A mad man pulled two pistols which both misfired. It is said the if Andrew’s friends would not have held him back he would have chased after the would be assassin with his cane. He lived, despite chronic sickness and a bullet in his chest, to be seventy-eight years old, and died peacefully at home on June 8, 1845.