Vice President: Martin Van Buren Secretary of State: Edward Livingston; Louis McLane (from May 1833); John Forsyth (from July 1834)
Secretary of the Treasury: Louis McLane; William J. Duane (from May 1833); Roger B. Taney (from September 1833); Levi Woodbury (from July 1834)
Secretary of War: Lewis Cass Attorney General: Roger B. Taney; Benjamin
F. Butler (from November 1833)
Postmaster General: John McLean; William T. Barry (from March 1829); Amos Kendall (from May 1835)
Secretary of the Navy: Levi Woodbury; Mahlon Dickerson (from June 1834)
Supreme Court Appointments: John McLean (1829); James M. Wayne (1835); Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice (1836); Philip P. Barbour (1836)
States Admitted: Arkansas (1836); Michigan (1837)
Father: Andrew Jackson (1730?-1767)
Mother: Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson (1740?-1781)
Wife: Rachel Donelson Robards (1767-1828)
Marriage: August 1, 1791; second ceremony January 17, 1794
Child: Andrew Jackson, Jr. (adopted) (1810-1865)
Andrew Jackson was the first president born in a log cabin.
At Jackson’s inauguration, celebrants poured into the White House, and in their enthusiasm they stood on the furniture, ripped curtains, broke glasses, and muddied carpets.
He was the first president to ride on a railroad train.
He survived the first attempt to assassinate a president.
During his presidency, running water was brought into the White House using a system of hollowed-out logs connected to a nearby reservoir.
In 1835 a 1,400-pound slab of cheddar cheese was delivered as a gift and placed in the entrance hall of the White House. The cheese, smell and all, stayed there for two years.
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