Jackson's Childhood

Andrew Jackson's was the seventh president of the United States, he was born in the Waxhaws area near the border between North and South Carolina on March 15, of 1767. Andrew Jackson's parents lived in North Carolina but historians debate on which side of the state Andrew Jackson's birth took place. Andrew Jackson was the third child and third son of His father, also named Andrew, died as the result of a logging accident just a few weeks before the future president was born. Jackson's mother, Elizabeth ("Betty") Hutchison Jackson, was by all accounts a strong, independent woman. After her husband's death she raised her three sons at the South Carolina home of one of her sisters.
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