Andrew Jackson
The seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson was born to poor parents in 1767 on the Carolina frontier.  He had few years of schooling, but became a lawyer, a general and a large plantation owner and slave-holder in Tennessee.  After winning the battle of 1812 in New Orleans,  "Old Hickory" as he was known played a major role in removing Native Americans from their land and pushing them west. Campaigning to expand the vote and access to office, he served in Congress before becoming president in 1828 and 1832.  He was the first president who was a "man of the people," and not of the American upper class. 
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