Andrew Jackson Donelson

Andrew Jackson Donelson ( born August 25, 1799 in Nashville, Tennessee, † June 26, 1871 in Memphis, Tennessee) was a diplomat and candidate for the vice-presidency of the United States.

As one of three sons of Samuel and Mary Donelson Andrew Jackson Donelson was born in Nashville. Both his younger brothers struck a military career. Daniel Smith Donelson served as a Confederate general Brigadie. Steven Alexander Donelson died at age 19, when he fought against invading Mexicans in the border area of Tennessee. His father died when Donelson was five years old. His mother married a mine owner from Appalachia and Donelson moved to his aunt, Rachel Donelson, and her husband, the future U.S. President Andrew Jackson.

After his stay in Louisiana Donelson began studying at Cumberland College in Nashville and went then to the United States Military Academy in New York. There he married after his graduation as the second best of his year, the Dutch merchants wife Emma, however, that after five months, died of a rare brain disease.

Between 1824 and 1828 assisted his uncle Andrew Jackson Donelson, after which he was named, in his presidential campaigns. There, he worked as a private secretary to his uncle, election officials of the Democratic Party, Shipbuilder, a lawyer and a journalist for the Washington Union, a respected democratic journal. From 1846 to 1849 he served as U.S. Ambassador to Prussia. A traditional love relationship with a federal judge and his radical political views brought him into trouble and resulted in 1852 in the exclusion from the Democratic Party. 1856 Donelson was nominated as the running mate of former President Millard Fillmore, who competed as a candidate of the American Party unsuccessfully for a further term. Both were only able to achieve victory in the state of Maryland and did not come in the Electoral College so that about eight electoral votes out.

Donelson it held not long after the defeat in Washington and he moved to Memphis, where he spent the rest of his life and died.

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• Mark R. Cheathem, Old Hickory 's Nephew: The Political and Private Struggles of Andrew Jackson Donelson ( LSU Press, 2007 ).
• The History - Historic Rockcastle