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  • You look a little like a heroic portrait I saw once of Andrew Jackson.†   (source)
  • Witnesses say the car, driven by Andrew Jackson, 17, also of the Hazelwood team, had been noticeably weaving across the lanes of the expressway just before it hit a retaining wall and burst into flames.†   (source)
  • In between that calamity and this, they had visited George III in London, published a newspaper, made baskets, led Oglethorpe through forests, helped Andrew Jackson fight Creek, cooked maize, drawn up a constitution, petitioned the King of Spain, been experimented on by Dartmouth, established asylums, wrote their language, resisted settlers, shot bear and translated scripture.†   (source)
  • "That's Andrew Jackson," he says.†   (source)
  • DR. DOANE: In 1767, Andrew Jackson, our seventh president, was born.†   (source)
  • John Adams was a great admirer of Andrew Jackson, but the prospect of his adored son winning the highest office was thrilling and a strong reason to stay alive.†   (source)
  • I had a heatstroke and that's why I zoned in forensics and Chinese and didn't rise to the bait when Diaz asked me what I thought about the legacy of Andrew Jackson.†   (source)
  • He had no regard whatsoever for Andrew Jackson and, as I say, nobody else in politics that I can call to mind.†   (source)
  • He had served as Secretary of State during Andrew Jackson's first term, later resigning to become ambassador to Great Britain.†   (source)
  • And that was Andrew Jackson, the man whose politics sowed the seeds of Confederate rebellion thirty years earlier.†   (source)
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  • And just when the sensitive subway guard's problems are getting the best of him, destroying his faith in Mankind and the Little People, his nine-year-old niece comes home from school and gives him some nice, pat chauvinistic philosophy handed down to us through posterity and P.S. 564 all the way from Andrew Jackson's backwoods wife.†   (source)
  • Word is that a man named Andrew Jackson of the western Tennizy country is gathering up an army.†   (source)
  • As Andrew Jackson said, "One man with courage makes a majority."†   (source)
  • INVESTIGATING OFFICER: Casey SUBJECT: Andrew Jackson-male–black, age 17.†   (source)
  • They took 220 dollars right off the top and handed it over to Andrew Jackson right there in court.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wallace, he's so flustered he just digs in his money drawer and gives Judd change for a twenty, and afterward I thought what did Andrew Jackson have to do with it?†   (source)
  • Two years after losing the 1828 election to Andrew Jackson, Adams was elected to the House of Representatives.†   (source)
  • For though Andrew Jackson received more popular votes, no candidate had a majority in the electoral count.†   (source)
  • Unlike the crazed Richard Lawrence, whose pistols misfired when he attempted to assassinate Andrew Jackson, Booth feels his gun kick.†   (source)
  • With three others also nominated, and all, like John Quincy, avowed Republicans—William Crawford of Georgia, Henry Clay of Kentucky, and General Andrew Jackson of Tennessee—it became a crowded contest of "increasing heat."†   (source)
  • Andrew Jackson here to see you, sir From the Tennizy country, he says," "Days before I looked for him," said Harrison.†   (source)
  • But though attempts were made by the Congress, and even by Andrew Jackson during his presidency, to end public discourse regarding slavery, their efforts failed.†   (source)
  • Truth is, an honest man like Andrew Jackson just wasn't no match for a couple of scoundrels like Bill Harrison and Hooch Palmer.†   (source)
  • At Ghent the same month, the American commissioners led by John Quincy Adams signed a peace treaty with Britain, news that would not reach the United States until February, by which time Americans under General Andrew Jackson had won a decisive victory, on January 15, at the battle of New Orleans.†   (source)
  • As Andrew Jackson gathers his American army, we also gather an army of men who have better claim to the name American.†   (source)
  • General Harrison was the judge, the jury' was all in uniform, and the defense attorney was--Andrew Jackson!†   (source)
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  • Many years of living among half-civilized Indian tribes had not made him a respecter of high office; in earlier years he had physically assaulted a Congressional foe of his idol, Andrew Jackson.†   (source)
  • John F. Kennedy's life and career has inspired millions of people around the world and shown the truth of Andrew Jackson's statement, "One man of courage makes a majority."†   (source)
  • His brutal free-for-all with Andrew Jackson, which caused him to leave a promising legal and political career in Tennessee for Missouri, was a subject of much comment when the two became firm political and personal friends in Washington.†   (source)
  • An infantry officer under Andrew Jackson in 1813, his right arm had been shredded by enemy bullets when he alone had dashed into enemy lines at the battle of the Horseshoe, his men cowering in the hills behind him.†   (source)
  • When Andrew Jackson's personal and political popularity brought increased support for Senator Benton's long-pending measure to expunge from the Senate Journal the resolution censuring Jackson for his unauthorized actions against the Bank of the United States, Senator John Tyler of Virginia, convinced that mutilation of the Journal was unconstitutional and unworthy of the Senate, stood his ground.†   (source)
  • Among the acquaintances and colleagues who march across the pages of his diary are Sam Adams (a kinsman), John Hancock, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Lafayette, John Jay, James Madison, James Monroe, John Marshall, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Hart Benton, John Tyler, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Lincoln, James Buchanan, William Lloyd Garrison, Andrew Johnson, Jefferson Davis and many others.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln was nineteen years old when Andrew Jackson was elected President.†   (source)
  • He was a hook-nosed, sour-faced, gaunt individual who reminded me vaguely of Andrew Jackson or a back-country evangelist despite the white turban on his head made out of sterile towels.†   (source)
  • He found in her a casualness, a lack of prejudice, a directness, surprising in the daughter of Andrew Jackson Tozer.†   (source)
  • It was not astounding that he should have become almost rich, for he accepted nothing that was not natural and convenient to Andrew Jackson Tozer.†   (source)
  • Old Andrew Jackson cried out upon them.†   (source)
  • She told him that she "adored" vaudeville, that her father, Andrew Jackson Tozer, was born in the East (by which she meant Illinois), and that she didn't particularly care for nursing.†   (source)
  • At the Wheatsylvania station, looking from the train window, Martin realized that this anxious-eyed, lip-puckering Andrew Jackson Tozer did love his daughter, did mourn her going.†   (source)
  • I think probably somebody hinted to Dad that folks were saying he must be broke, if his dear little daughter had to go off and learn nursing, and he hasn't worried it all out yet—it takes Andrew Jackson Tozer about a year to worry out anything.†   (source)
  • She came in serenely, with coffee and a tremendous Swedish coffee-ring voluptuous with raisins and glistening brown sugar, and she had them talking, almost easily, about the coldness of winter and the value of Fords when into the midst of all this brightness slid Mr. Andrew Jackson Tozer, and they drooped again to politeness.†   (source)
  • Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God! who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly hammered leaves of finest gold, the stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!†   (source)
  • It was a good pup, was that Andrew Jackson, and would have made a name for hisself if he'd lived, for the stuff was in him and he had genius--I know it, because he hadn't no opportunities to speak of, and it don't stand to reason that a dog could make such a fight as he could under them circumstances if he hadn't no talent.†   (source)
  • Andrew Jackson knew the Flint well, and marched across it once to avenge the Indian Massacre at Fort Mims.†   (source)
  • And a dog might tackle him and bully-rag him, and bite him, and throw him over his shoulder two or three times, and Andrew Jackson--which was the name of the pup--Andrew Jackson would never let on but what he was satisfied, and hadn't expected nothing else--and the bets being doubled and doubled on the other side all the time, till the money was all up; and then all of a sudden he would grab that other dog jest by the j'int of his hind leg and freeze to it--not chaw, you understand,…†   (source)
  • It was reserved for Andrew Jackson, a man genuinely of the people, to lead and visualize the rise of the lower orders.†   (source)
  • [5] /Vide/ Andrew Jackson….†   (source)
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