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Andrew Jackson Jr. (December 4, 1808 – April 17, 1865) was the son of seventh U.S. president Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson Jr., a biological child of Rachel Jackson's brother Severn Donelson and Elizabeth Rucker, was the one child among their nearly three dozen wards that they considered to be their own child. As presented in an 1878 newspaper feature on the surviving Jackson descendants still resident at the Hermitage, "In after years Gen. Jackson had other nephews, to whom he gave a hearty welcome into his home, but to none other did he ever give his name or make heir to his fortune. One of these nephews was the distinguished Andrew Jackson Donelson, who ran for Vice President on the Fillmore ticket, and who was always associated with the General, but who was not the bona fide adopted son, as many suppose."[1] According to historian Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson Jr. was "irresponsible and ambitionless, a considerable disappointment to his father."[2] When former president Jackson died, Junior inherited real and enslaved human property valued at roughly $150,000; within a decade he had turned his fortune into roughly $100,000 in debt.[3]
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- ^ Cheathem (2014), p. 202.