Andrew Jackson Quotes
I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.
Parton, James. Life of Andrew Jackson. Vol. 3, Mason Brothers, 1860, p. 623.
At the time Hull was serving as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee whose funds were minimal.
Fouquet was incompetent and corrupt. The King then appointed Jean Baptiste Colbert, a great financial administrator.
Andrew Jackson was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. An expansionist president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy" and to preserve the Union.