what was william wirt's relationship with andrew jackson?
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Not certain there was any relationship. President Thomas Jefferson asked him to be the prosecutor in Aaron Burr's treason trial. President James Monroe named him the ninth Attorney General of the United States in 1817, a position he held for 12 years, through the administration of John Quincy Adams, until 1829.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wirt
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Jackson did. Robert Vincent Remini's book, "Andrew Jackson," goes into detail of his many reforms including; public education, abolishing debtor's prisons, women's rights, care for the poor, world peace, temperance, improved prisons and insane asylums, and the abolition of slavery.\n\nJ. Q. Adams also supported women's rights.His mother, Abagail, was a staunch supporter of women's rights, and so was his wife Louisa.
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When Andrew Jackson ran for president in 1828, his opponents tried to label him a "jackass" for his populist views and his slogan, "Let the people rule." Jackson, however, picked up on their name calling and turned it to his own advantage by using the donkey on his campaign posters. During his presidency, the donkey was used to represent Jackson's stubbornness when he vetoed re-chartering the National Bank.\n\nThe first time the donkey was used in a political cartoon to represent the Democratic party, it was again in conjunction with Jackson. Although in 1837 Jackson was retired, he still thought of himself as the Party's leader and was shown trying to get the donkey to go where he wanted it to go. The cartoon was titled "A Modern Baalim and his Ass."\n\nInterestingly enough, the person credited with getting the donkey widely accepted as the Democratic party's symbol probably had no knowledge of the prior associations. Thomas Nast, a famous political cartoonist, came to the United States with his parents in 1840 when he was six. He first used the donkey in an 1870 Harper's Weekly cartoon to represent the "Copperhead Press" kicking a dead lion, symbolizing Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who had recently died. Nast intended the donkey to represent an anti-war faction with whom he disagreed, but the symbol caught the public's fancy and the cartoonist continued using it to indicate some Democratic editors and newspapers.\n\nLater, Nast used the donkey to portray what he called "Caesarism" showing the alleged Democratic uneasiness over a possible third term for Ulysses S. Grant. In conjunction with this issue, Nast helped associate the elephant with the Republican party. Although the elephant had been connected with the Republican party in cartoons that appeared in 1860 and 1872, it was Nast's cartoon in 1874 published by Harper's Weekly that made the pachyderm stick as the Republican's symbol. A cartoon titled "The Third Term Panic," showed animals representing various issues running away from a donkey wearing a lion's skin tagged "Caesarism." The elephant labeled "The Republican Vote," was about to run into a pit containing inflation, chaos, repudiation, etc.\n\nBy 1880 the donkey was well established as a mascot for the Democratic party. A cartoon about the Garfield-Hancock campaign in the New York Daily Graphic showed the Democratic candidate mounted on a donkey, leading a procession of crusaders.\n\nOver the years, the donkey and the elephant have become the accepted symbols of the Democratic and Republican parties. Although the Democrats have never officially adopted the donkey as a party symbol, they have used various donkey designs on publications over the years. The Republicans have actually adopted the elephant as their official symbol and use their design widely.\n\nThe Democrats think of the elephant as bungling, stupid, pompous and conservative -- but the Republicans think it is dignified, strong and intelligent. On the other hand, the Republicans regard the donkey as stubborn, silly and ridiculous -- but the Democrats claim it is humble, homely, smart, courageous and loveable.
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In Congress, Polk was a firm supporter of Jacksonian democracy; he opposed the Second Bank of the United States, favored gold and silver over paper money; distrusted banks; and preferred agricultural interests over industrial ones. This behavior earned him the nickname "Young Hickory," an allusion to Andrew Jackson's sobriquet, "Old Hickory." After Jackson defeated Adams in the presidential election of 1828, Polk rose in prominence, becoming the leader of the pro-Administration faction in Congress. As chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, he lent his support to the President in the conflict over the National Bank.
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Andrew Johnson. He was Lincoln's Vice-President and became President after Lincoln was assassinated. He was born in North Carolina and moved to Tennessee. He was a member of House of Representatives from Tennessee and stayed in that post after Tennessee's succession. He was made military governor of Tennessee in 1862 and Lincoln nominated him as Vice President despite the fact that he was a Southern Democrat.\n\nHe had many fights with the socalled Radical Republicans over reconstruction. They overrode hos veto on the Civil Rights Act establishing blacks as Citizens and forbidding discrimination. Congress also passed the 14th Amendment establishing equal rights against Johnson's opposition. They passed laws Governing reconstruction and impeached Johnson for sacking the Secretary of War Edwin Stanton with him surviving by a vote. Johnson was reelected as Senator for Tennessee in 1875 and died a few months later.
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He had no slogan. What caught most peoples attention during his first election was the mudslinging. Like the opponet called Andrew Jackson a Adulter and also said his mom was a prostatute.
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I'm not sure about being relations to Jesse James, however there history is well documented on the web. They were known as the Dalton Gang.\n\nhttp://www.gunslinger.com/dalton.html\n\nThey raided a bank in Coffeyville, you can read about it here...\n\nhttp://www.gunslinger.com/d-raid.htm
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More Democratic...Possibly.  During this time, we had a rather dynamic change in leadership, namley Andrew.   The years of President Jackson is when the nation was experiencing a change in social, political, and economics.  People now believed that power, wealth, and position should and could be obtained if there is an equal opportunity, ambition, intelligence, and a strong work ethic.  This thought which washed away the colonial socioeconomic system (when public service jobs were inherited), was brought by an emerging industrial and market system.\n\nJackson being from the newly formed Democratic Party rejected elitist views of his predecessors in favor of an egalitarian approach to public service.  Egalitarians usually are characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people (Remember, this was during the time of slavery, however).  Jackson believed governemnt should be open to all people.
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Andrew Jackson was a major influence on all of the presidents who served during this period of history. From 1840-1860 state's rights democrats won every election on the popularity of Andrew Jackson who served from 1832-1840. As a result they worked hard to emmulate him as he founded the Democratic Party and he was the idol of their party much like Henry Clay was for Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln....he used to talk about his wrestling experience while in the White House\n\nVice President Chaney was also a wrestler, as was Andrew Jackson.
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On December 10, 1832, President Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation to the people of South Carolina that disputed a states' right to nullify a federal law. Jackson's proclamation was written in response to an ordinance issued by a South Carolina convention that declared that the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 "are unauthorized by the constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State." Led by John C. Calhoun, Jackson's vice president at the time, the nullifiers felt that the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 favored Northern-manufacturing interests at the expense of Southern farmers. After Jackson issued his proclamation, Congress passed the Force Act that authorized the use of military force against any state that resisted the tariff acts. In 1833, Henry Clay helped broker a compromise bill with Calhoun that slowly lowered tariffs over the next decade. The Compromise Tariff of 1833 was eventually accepted by South Carolina and ended the nullification crisis.\n\n\nFrom other source\n\nSouth Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, November 24, 1832.\nAn ordinance to nullify certain acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws laying duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities.\nWhereas the Congress of the United States by various acts, purporting to be acts laying duties and imposts on foreign imports, but in reality intended for the protection of domestic manufactures and the giving of bounties to classes and individuals engaged in particular employments, at the expense and to the injury and oppression of other classes and individuals, and by wholly exempting from taxation certain foreign commodities, such as are not produced or manufactured in the United States, to afford a pretext for imposing higher and excessive duties on articles similar to those intended to be protected, bath exceeded its just powers under the constitution, which confers on it no authority to afford such protection, and bath violated the true meaning and intent of the constitution, which provides for equality in imposing the burdens of taxation upon the several States and portions of the confederacy: And whereas the said Congress, exceeding its just power to impose taxes and collect revenue for the purpose of effecting and accomplishing the specific objects and purposes which the constitution of the United States authorizes it to effect and accomplish, hath raised and collected unnecessary revenue for objects unauthorized by the constitution. \n\nWe, therefore, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities, and now having actual operation and effect within the United States, and, more especially, an act entitled "An act in alteration of the several acts imposing duties on imports," approved on the nineteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight and also an act entitled "An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports," approved on the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, are unauthorized by the constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State, its officers or citizens; and all promises, contracts, and obligations, made or entered into, or to be made or entered into, with purpose to secure the duties imposed by said acts, and all judicial proceedings which shall be hereafter had in affirmance thereof, are and shall be held utterly null and void. \n\nAnd it is further ordained, that it shall not be lawful for any of the constituted authorities, whether of this State or of the
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Andrew Jackson was the 1st governor of Florida and the 7th president of the US. He's currently on the $20 bill. For more info go here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
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Andrew Jackson was known as "Old Hickory".  You can find a biography which explains how he got the nickname here: http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/bio/public/jackson.htm
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With the Assassination of Lincoln, the Presidency fell upon an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states' rights views. Although an honest and honorable man, Andrew Johnson was one of the most unfortunate of Presidents. Arrayed against him were the Radical Republicans in Congress, brilliantly led and ruthless in their tactics. Johnson was no match for them. \n\nBorn in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1808, Johnson grew up in poverty. He was apprenticed to a tailor as a boy, but ran away. He opened a tailor shop in Greeneville, Tennessee, married Eliza McCardle, and participated in debates at the local academy. \n\nEntering politics, he became an adept stump speaker, championing the common man and vilifying the plantation aristocracy. As a Member of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 1840's and '50's, he advocated a homestead bill to provide a free farm for the poor man. \n\nDuring the secession crisis, Johnson remained in the Senate even when Tennessee seceded, which made him a hero in the North and a traitor in the eyes of most Southerners. In 1862 President Lincoln appointed him Military Governor of Tennessee, and Johnson used the state as a laboratory for reconstruction. In 1864 the Republicans, contending that their National Union Party was for all loyal men, nominated Johnson, a Southerner and a Democrat, for Vice President. \n\nAfter Lincoln's death, President Johnson proceeded to reconstruct the former Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865. He pardoned all who would take an oath of allegiance, but required leaders and men of wealth to obtain special Presidential pardons. \n\nBy the time Congress met in December 1865, most southern states were reconstructed, slavery was being abolished, but "black codes" to regulate the freedmen were beginning to appear. \n\nRadical Republicans in Congress moved vigorously to change Johnson's program. They gained the support of northerners who were dismayed to see Southerners keeping many prewar leaders and imposing many prewar restrictions upon Negroes. \n\nThe Radicals' first step was to refuse to seat any Senator or Representative from the old Confederacy. Next they passed measures dealing with the former slaves. Johnson vetoed the legislation. The Radicals mustered enough votes in Congress to pass legislation over his veto--the first time that Congress had overridden a President on an important bill. They passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which established Negroes as American citizens and forbade discrimination against them. \n\nA few months later Congress submitted to the states the Fourteenth Amendment, which specified that no state should "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." \n\nAll the former Confederate States except Tennessee refused to ratify the amendment; further, there were two bloody race riots in the South. Speaking in the Middle West, Johnson faced hostile audiences. The Radical Republicans won an overwhelming victory in Congressional elections that fall. \n\nIn March 1867, the Radicals effected their own plan of Reconstruction, again placing southern states under military rule. They passed laws placing restrictions upon the President. When Johnson allegedly violated one of these, the Tenure of Office Act, by dismissing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, the House voted eleven articles of impeachment against him. He was tried by the Senate in the spring of 1868 and acquitted by one vote. \n\nIn 1875, Tennessee returned Johnson to the Senate. He died a few months later.
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WILLIAM PENN., a celebrated English Quaker and Philanthropist, the founder of the colony of Pennsylvania, the son of Sir William Penn, an eminent English admiral, was born at London, October 14th, 1644. His early years were spent partly in Essex and partly in Ireland, where his father had several estates. He studied at Christ church, Oxford, and while there was converted to Quakerism by the preaching of a disciple of George Fox, named Thomas Loc. His enthusiasm for his new faith assumed an aggressive form, for not only did he object to attending the services of the Church of England, and wearing the surplice of a student, both of which he considered eminently papistical, but, along with some companions who had also become Quakers, he attacked several of his fellow-students, and tore the obnoxious robes from their backs.\n\nHis colony became an asylum for the persecuted members of other sects beside the Quakers. Towards the end of the reign of Charles II, Penn returned to England to exert himself in favor of his persecuted brethren at home. His influence with James II - an old friend of his father's - was so great, that in 1686 a proclamation was issued to release all persons imprisoned on account of their religious opinions, and more than 1200 Quakers were set free.\n\nPenn died at Ruscombe, in Berkshire, July 30th, 1718. The character of William Penn, and his code of laws, have been the the theme of eulogy. "In the early constitutions of Pennsylvania, are to be found the distinct annunciation of every great principle; the germ, if not the development, of every valuable improvement in government or legislation which has been introduced into the political systems of modern epochs." - T.J. Wharton, Discourse before the Penn Society, 1826. "To William Penn belongs the distinction of establishing the Law of Love as a rule of conduct in the intercourse of nations." - Charles Sumner, True Grandeur of Nations.
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I could not dig up much I am afraid\n\nBill's biological dad \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jefferson_Blythe%2C_Jr.\nhttp://www.thecemeteryproject.com/Graves%202/blythe-III-william%20jefferson.htm\n\nBill's step dad\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Clinton%2C_Sr.
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Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837.