Title: Andrew Jackson Plaque

Date/Date Range :   1833

Extent: 0.5 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection consists of an Andrew Jackson framed plaque that includes a 1980 painting by R. Dobson, a dinner invitation to John Clayton who later became Secretary of State under President Zachary Taylor, a note penned to Secretary of the Treasury, a printed copy of the December 3, 1933 Annual Message to Congress, and a coin with Andrew Jackson's likeness.

Call number: MS-2733

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

This collection was donated to Special Collections by Gary Johnson in January 2006. It is part of the Johnson Family U.S. Presidential Collection.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Andrew Jackson Plaque, MS-2733. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single oversized plaque.

Andrew Jackson was the seventeenth President of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. Born in 1767 in the frontier settlement of the Waxhaws in South Carolina, Jackson moved to Salisbury, NC in 1784 and received his license to practice law in 1787, beginning his practice in North Carolina's Western District in Washington County (now a part of Tennessee). In October 1788, he moved to Nashville where he met his wife Rachel. After serving as the major general of the Tennessee militia for twenty years and earning recognition as a military leader in the War of 1812, Jackson was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1823 and to the presidency in 1828. After serving two terms as president, Jackson returned to the Hermitage, his Nashville home, in early 1837. Eight years later, in 1845, Jackson died at his home at the age of 78.

This collection consists of an Andrew Jackson framed plaque that includes a 1980 painting by R. Dobson, a dinner invitation to John Clayton who later became Secretary of State under President Zachary Taylor, a note penned to Secretary of the Treasury, a printed copy of the December 3, 1933 Annual Message to Congress, and a coin with Andrew Jackson's likeness.

• Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.