Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. He was a military general, a frontier lawyer, and the founder of what became the Democratic Party. He was also the driving force behind the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which resulted in the forced displacement of tens of thousands of Native Americans in what became known as the Trail of Tears — one of the most devastating episodes of ethnic cleansing in American history.
He is on the $20 bill, though there have been ongoing efforts to replace his image with Harriet Tubman’s, which has been delayed through multiple administrations for reasons that mostly involve not wanting to do things.
His legacy is, to put it gently, very mixed. He reshaped American democracy in some ways and caused enormous suffering in others. I share his last name and nothing else. I have never forced anyone off their land. I do not have strong opinions about the Second Bank of the United States. We are very different people.