The DNC is a political tradition that dates back to 1832, when Democrat Martin Van Buren secured his position as running mate to incumbent president Andrew Jackson.

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In the early days of our republic, President Andrew Jackson established an important principle of American-style democracy that we should measure the health of our society not at its apex, but at its base.

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According to data collected by Jeff Hirsch, editor of Stock Trader's Almanac Investor and son of founder Yale Hirsch, the third year of a president's term, going back to 1832 and President Andrew Jackson, has been far and away the most rewarding for stock investors.

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The Indian gallery features a Rembrandt Peale portrait (c. 1813) of future U.S. President William Henry Harrison, who defeated Tecumseh at Thames, as well as a buckskin jacket worn by Hillis Hadjo, leader of the Red Sticks (Batons Rouge), who were defeated by another future U.S. president, Andrew Jackson, at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814.

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For lack of a better name, it is what historian Walter Russell Mead has referred to as Jacksonianism, after Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the US. As Mead noted in a 1999 article in The National Interest titled "The Jacksonian Tradition, " the most popular and enduring US model for foreign policy is far more flexible than either the isolationist or the neoconservative model.

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In 1767, Andrew Jackson, U.S. general, democrat and seventh president of the United States, was born.

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