Andrew Jackson
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Andrew Jackson's father died before he was born. His mother was Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson. She died when he was a teenager. Jackson was the first president born in a log cabin. He was from a poor family. Andrew Jackson studied law for four years. While he was practicing law in Tennessee, he lived in a boarding house owned by the family of Rachel Donelson Robards, his future wife. Jackson married in 1791 and adopted one son, Andrew Jackson, Jr.
