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
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"
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
Wards of Andrew Jackson
…married a daughter of Jackson's other slave-trading business partner and brother-in-arms John Coffee, got into some debt, and died of illness in 1841 Andrew Jackson Jr. - Jackson was born a twin, the fifth of nine children born to Rachel's brother Severn Donelson and his wife Elizabeth Rucker. He was taken by the…
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