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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: February 16, 2015
Caption: Andrew Jackson
Additional Description: This 1836-37 portrait of Andrew Jackson by Ralph E. W. Earl hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC..

“With the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln, no nineteenth-century president wielded his powers more aggressively than Andrew Jackson, which is confirmed by his use of the presidential veto over Congress. Unlike his predecessors, who invoked that power on strictly constitutional grounds, Jackson vetoed key congressional measures, not because he deemed them illegal, but simply because he did not like them. In doing so, he set a precedent that vastly enlarged the presidential role in congressional law­making. Among Jackson's opponents, this executive activism drew charges of dictatorship. Those accusations, however, carried little weight among yeoman farmers and laborers, who doted on Jackson's professed opposition to elitism.

Jackson is here depicted in the last year of his presidency, …” — National Portrait Gallery
Submitted: June 11, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p310906
File Size: 2.060 Megabytes

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