Andrew Jackson Jr.
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Andrew Jackson Jr. was the adopted son of seventh U.S. president Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson Jr., a biological child of Rachel Jackson's brother Severn Donelson and Elizabeth Rucker, was the one ch
Portrait by Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl
Andrew Jackson Jr. in childhood, painted by cousin-in-law Ralph Eleazer Whiteside Earl (Ladies' Hermitage Association Collection)
"The Hermitage, Jackson's tomb, and Andrew J. Donelson's residence 12 miles from Nashville, Tennessee. Taken at the spot, March 29, 1856" (Endicott & Co. lithograph, LCCN 2003664953)
Rachel Jackson Lawrence, Jackson's granddaughter, painted during Jackson's presidency
Wards of Andrew Jackson
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This is a list of people for whom Andrew Jackson, seventh U.S. president, acted as pater familias or served as a guardian, legal or otherwise. Andrew and Rachel Donelson Jackson had no biological chil
Andrew Jackson Jr.
…Jackson Jr., a biological child of Rachel Jackson's brother Severn Donelson and Elizabeth Rucker, was the one child among the more than three dozen wards of Andrew Jackson that they considered to be their own child. As presented in an 1878 newspaper feature on the surviving Jackson descendants still resident at the…
1846 lithograph of Jackson
Col. Edward George Washington Butler (1800–1888)
Robert Butler (born Dec. 25, 1786), served as an adjutant general and Jackson's chief of staff in the War of 1812
William Edward Butler (1790–1882), "the father of Jackson, Tennessee"