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Andrew Jackson ruled from the year 1829 up to the year 1837and was born on March 15, 1767, in South Carolina. He became the 7th president of the United States being the first from the West of Appalachia, indicating a shift of power from the East to the West. When he was 13 years old, he joined the local militia as a patriot courier and was caught in 1781 by the British. He hated Britain owing to the fact that the deaths of his family members were affiliated with the British. He was chosen major general of the Tennessee militia and subsequently won the battle of Horseshow Bend in 1814, securing the US acres of territory from the Creek Indians. In 1815, he also defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans. (Bradley, 2022). He served for a short time in the senate and was the first man elected to the house of the representative from Tennessee. He gained the presidency by mass appealing to the voters having been a war hero with an aim of directly representing the common man.