He was Andrew Jackson’s main man in Jackson’s cage fight to the death with Nicholas Biddle and his Second Bank of the United States (kind of a private-label Yankee Fed).
I get a mixed message here on FR about Old Hickory from some astute FReepers. There was a thread recently depicting Jackson in a very bad light stemming from him being a Democrat. See the multipart series titled “The ugly history of the Democrat Party”. From the Texas board, you know the respect I have for you (and your impressive command of the vocabulary). So how to you size up Andrew Jackson?