Date of Birth: March 15, 1767
Place of Birth: Waxhaws border region between North Carolina and South Carolina (exact location disputed)
Date of Death: June 8, 1845
Place of Death: Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Ethnicity: Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), English
Andrew Jackson was an American statesman. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 7th President of the United States, having served from March 4, 1829 to March 4, 1837. He was also a Military Governor of Florida, from March 10, 1821 to December 31, 1821, a United States Senator from Tennessee, from September 26, 1797 to April 1, 1798, and again from March 4, 1823 to October 14, 1825, and a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee, from December 4, 1796 to September 26, 1797. He was also a Democratic-Republican Party candidate for President in 1824, when he won a plurality of the popular vote.
President Jackson was the son of Elizabeth (Hutchinson) and Andrew Jackson. His parents were from Carrickfergus, Antrim, Northern Ireland. They both also had recent English ancestry.
President Jackson’s patrilineal line can be traced back to Anthony Jackson, who was born, c. 1578, in Killingswood Grove, Yorkshire, England.
President Jackson’s paternal grandparents were Hugh Jackson (the son of Thomas Jackson and Isabella Thompson) and Elizabeth Creath. Thomas was the son of John Jackson and Katherine McKinley.
President Jackson’s maternal grandfather was Francis Cyrus Hobart Hutchinson (the son of John Hutchinson and Mary Hobart). Francis was born in Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire, England, to a father from Owthorpe and a mother from Antrim, Ireland. John was the son of John Hutchinson and Lucy Apsley.
President Jackson’s maternal grandmother was Margaret Lisle (the daughter of John Lisle and Elizabeth).
Source: Genealogy of Andrew Jackson – https://www.geni.com