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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

1767 CE1845 CE · Washington, D.C.

Andrew Jackson was the 7th President, serving from 1829 to 1837 as a Democrat. A general in the War of 1812, he won fame at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. A founder of the Democratic Party, his presidency reshaped American politics; he signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and opposed the Second Bank of the United States.

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About Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is the area where the teacher Tara Brach founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington in 1998, one of the larger Western vipassanā (insight meditation) communities, drawing on the Theravāda-derived insight tradition.

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