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Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States and the first westerner to be elected president. His election marked an end of a political era dominated by the planter aristocracy of Virginia and the commercial aristocracy of New England. He fought his way to leadership and wealth in a frontier society, and his success established a bond between him and the common people that was never broken. Small farmers, laborers, mechanics, and many other Americans struggling to better themselves looked to Jackson for leadership. Prior to his presidency, Jackson was very active in war and politics. At the tender age of thirteen he became an orderly and messenger in the mounted militia of South Carolina where he took part in the battle of Hanging Rock against the British. By age fourteen and without any immediate family he took his $300 inheritance from his grandfather and went to Charleston, South Carolina. With his money he studied law and was admitted to practice in 1787. The next year he was appointed solicitor general. In 1790 Jackson was appointed as North Carolina’s prosecuting attorney. In 1796 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After one year in the house, Jackson was elected t