Jackson was a serious policymaker. He paid off the national debt. In vetoing the re-charter of the national bank, he established the precedent, though said he wasn't doing so, that bills could be ...

Legacy Andrew Jackson is of the most portrayed chief executives in the ... including his promise to cleanse the government of corruption, his fight to kill the National Bank, his Indian Removal Bill, ...

Madison also noted that the Constitution conferred no power to establish a national bank ... of this Second Bank of the United States expired under President Andrew Jackson, another Bank foe ...

Andrew Jackson and the Protestant Irish of Philadelphia ... internal improvements, and a national bank. Tomek, Colonization and Its Discontents, 63–68. 29. The Irish Shield, January 28 and May 6, 1831 ...

Legacy In the genre of presidential portraiture, Andrew Jackson has been one of the most portrayed ... his fight to kill the National Bank, his Indian Removal Bill, his “Kitchen Cabinet” of advisors, ...

Jackson threatened to collect the funds at gunpoint. The state backed down. When Whigs in Congress brought up a bill to charter the Second Bank of the United States -- a private institution that ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as ...