The History of Presidential Assassination Attempts, From Andrew Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt Before last weekend’s attack on Donald Trump, would-be assassins unsuccessfully targeted Ronald Reagan ...

Vice President J.D. Vance will be in Jackson on July 29 to attend a fundraiser for the Republican National Committee. The ...

In an otherwise excellent column (“Trump’s Echo of 1829,” op-ed, Feb. 27) Karl Rove contends that President Andrew Jackson “presided over the ‘Tariff of Abominations.’” This requires ...

Andrew Jackson won the popular vote and the most electoral votes but didn't secure a majority. The election was decided by the House of Representatives, which chose John Quincy Adams.

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John Quincy Adams' son Charles Francis lamented, "The disastrous result of the presidential election throws a gloom over the political affairs of the country which is deeper and darker than it ...

President Andrew Jackson bought The Hermitage property in 1804. At first, he lived in his log cabin for 17 years before moving into the brick mansion.

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Andrew Jackson's first election was opposed by his four living predecessors, as Donald Trump's was by his five.

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president.

Thomas Jefferson, who, as vice president, had presided as the 30-year-old Jackson exploded in fury, called him “a dangerous man” and told visitors to Monticello years later that he was, in his ...

Throughout American history, there have been 17 direct assaults against presidents and presidential candidates. Five of those incidents resulted in death.