Thought for the Day
“When death comes,
he respects neither age nor merit.
He sweeps from the earthly existence
the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor,
and should teach us to live
to be prepared for death.”
~ Andrew Jackson
*Andrew Jackson
Born: March 15, 1767 Waxhaws area Died: June 8, 1845 (aged 78) Nashville, Tennessee The seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was military governor of pre-admission Florida (1821), commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815), and eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy. A polarizing figure who dominated American politics in the 1820s and 1830s, his political ambition combined with widening political participation, shaping the modern Democratic Party.
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