ANDREW JACKSON — ACQUAINTED WITH PAIN
He’s called “Old Hickory” because of his personal grit! His mother named him ‘Andrew’ on March 15, 1767 when she gave birth to this independent-minded rebel. He was not interested in school — wild, quick-tempered, and Andrew answered the call for soldiers at age 13! Shortly he was taken prisoner; he refused to polish an enemy officer’s boots and he was struck with a saber — Andrew’s first introduction to pain. He carried that mark for the rest of his life — but his disposition never changed. He was a fighter to the core. He chose to settle arguments in duels and lived most of his life with two bullets painfully lodged in his body. After his battlefield heroics, his name became a household word for courage. When politics called, ‘Old Hickory’ accepted the challenge. First there was the Senate, then nomination for the presidency. Then a different kind of pain — he lost a very narrow race…
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