Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was a Tennessee lawyer, planter and militia general who became a national hero by defeating the British at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815, and the seventh president in 1829. He cast himself as the champion of ordinary white men against the banks, and he destroyed the Second Bank of the United States. His record also includes the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which forced Native nations from their homelands and led to the Trail of Tears.

New Orleans renamed its old parade ground Jackson Square for him. The bronze of him on a rearing horse is by Clark Mills, who made the first version for Lafayette Square in Washington, dedicated in 1853 and the first equestrian statue cast in the United States. In Philadelphia, the marble temple of the Second Bank, the bank he fought, is now a portrait gallery of the founding era.