He took office on March 4, 1829 ... Andrew the first,” the Baltimore Patriot reported. At issue was what later became famed as “The Petticoat Affair.” Since the inaugural ball, most of ...

Washington’s cultural and political establishment was aghast at the heartland rabble that flocked to the inauguration.

Quincy Adams also skipped his successor, Andrew Jackson’s inauguration ceremony in 1829 due to political tensions. Adams was offended Jackson did not visit him ahead of the inauguration ceremony ...

President Andrew Jackson had some 20,000 of his supporters attend a celebration around the White House following his first inauguration in 1829. The mob quickly grew rowdy, however, with fights ...

He was also not formally invited by Jefferson. In 1829, John Quincy Adams boycotted the inauguration of Andrew Jackson, according to the Library of Congress. It's unclear why Martin Van Buren did ...

At Andrew Jackson’s inauguration, the celebratory crowd got a bit too rowdy. In 1829, around 10,000 people came to Washington, D.C., to celebrate the first inauguration of Andrew Jackson.

In an otherwise excellent column (“Trump’s Echo of 1829,” op-ed, Feb. 27) Karl Rove contends that President Andrew Jackson “presided over the ‘Tariff of Abominations.’” This requires ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson ... past was used against Jackson. Suffering from heart trouble, Rachel Jackson died on December 22, 1828, a few months before her husband’s inauguration.