I do question Jackson’s sanity while in office. Given that his beloved wife Rachel died before he was sworn-in (likely dying perhaps from the stress of one of the ugliest elections in the 19th century where SHE was personally attacked for being a bigamist), I think he carried a LOT of seething hatred for his opponents that went well beyond the professional to personal. He got to relive the mess (exacerbating his heartache) with the Peggy Eaton affair, which cleared out his Cabinet as a result (and elevated Martin Van Buren, who was pro-Peggy, to Jackson’s heir apparent — which would result in the wholesale formation of the Whig Party in Tennessee, prior to which it was almost uniformally Jacksonian Democrat).
The Peggy Eaton thing is an interesting event. Imagine people calling John Edwards a whore and thus offending Obama so much he appoints Liz Edwards to the cabinet and then fires everyone else cause their spouses won’t invite John to parties. ;-D
Tennessee only went Whig cause of Van Buren? After 1832 I notice it didn’t go dem for President again till 1856. Even Polk lost it.
I notice the SC legislature didn’t back Jackson’s reelection (over his split with Calhoun and the nullifers I gather) and went with John Floyd in 1832 a nullifier who had been a National Republican. And a went with a local Whig in 1836 before returning to the dems thereafter.