Andrew Jackson was an American lawyer,general,and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency,Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. An expansionist president,Jackson sought to advance the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy" and to preserve the Union.
The speaker of the United States House of Representatives,commonly known as the speaker of the House,is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I,Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. The speaker is the political and parliamentary leader of the House of Representatives and is simultaneously the House's presiding officer,de facto leader of the body's majority party,and the institution's administrative head. Speakers also perform various other administrative and procedural functions. Given these several roles and responsibilities,the speaker usually does not personally preside over debates. That duty is instead delegated to members of the House from the majority party. Neither does the speaker regularly participate in floor debates.
Daniel Webster was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison,John Tyler,and Millard Fillmore. Webster was one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century,and argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life,he was a member of the Federalist Party,the National Republican Party,and the Whig Party.
Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician serving as speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2019,and previously from 2007 to 2011. She has served as a U.S. representative from California since 1987. A member of the Democratic Party,Pelosi is the only woman in U.S. history to serve as speaker of the House.
John Henry Eaton was an American politician and diplomat from Tennessee who served as U.S. Senator and as Secretary of War in the administration of Andrew Jackson. He was 28 years,4 months,and 29 days old when he entered the Senate,making him the youngest U.S. Senator in history.
Steny Hamilton Hoyer is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 5th congressional district since 1981 and as House Majority Leader since 2019. A Democrat,Hoyer was first elected in a special election on May 19,1981. As of 2022,he is in his 20th term as a member of the House. The district includes a large swath of rural and suburban territory southeast of Washington,D.C. Hoyer is the dean of the Maryland congressional delegation and the most senior Democrat in the House.
Eric Ivan Cantor is an American lawyer and former politician who represented Virginia's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2014. A Republican,Cantor served as House Minority Whip from 2009 to 2011 and as House Majority Leader from 2011 to 2014.
Samuel Delucenna Ingham was a US Representative. He served as US Treasury Secretary under President Andrew Jackson.
Timothy John Ryan is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party,he entered Congress in 2003,representing Ohio's 17th congressional district until redistricting. Ryan's district currently takes in a large swath of northeastern Ohio,from Youngstown to Akron.
Elaine Lucille Edwards was an American politician from Louisiana. Edwards was a Democratic member of the United States Senate in 1972 appointed by her husband,Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards,following the death of Allen Ellender.
Robert Vincent Remini was an American historian and a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He wrote numerous books about President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian era,most notably a three-volume biography of Jackson. For the third volume of Andrew Jackson,subtitled The Course of American Democracy,1833-1845,he won the 1984 U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction. Remini was widely praised for his meticulous research on Jackson and thorough knowledge of him. His books portrayed Jackson in a mostly favorable light and he was sometimes criticized for being too partial towards his subject.
The 111th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government from January 3,2009,until January 3,2011. It began during the last two weeks of the George W. Bush administration,with the remainder spanning the first two years of Barack Obama's presidency. It was composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The apportionment of seats in the House was based on the 2000 U.S. Census.
The Historian of the United States House of Representatives is an official appointed by the United States House of Representatives to study and document its past. The House Historian heads the Office of the House Historian,which serves as the institutional memory for the institution. The current Historian of the House is Matthew Wasniewski.
Hazel Hempel Abel was an American educator and politician in the U.S. state of Nebraska,who served as a member of the United States Senate for fifty-four days in 1954. She was the first woman elected to the Senate from Nebraska,and she remains the shortest-serving senator from Nebraska.
The presidency of Andrew Jackson began on March 4,1829,when Andrew Jackson was inaugurated as President of the United States,and ended on March 4,1837. Jackson,the seventh United States president,took office after defeating incumbent President John Quincy Adams in the bitterly contested 1828 presidential election. During the 1828 presidential campaign,Jackson founded the political force that coalesced into the Democratic Party during Jackson's presidency. Jackson won re-election in 1832,defeating National Republican candidate Henry Clay by a wide margin. He was succeeded by his hand-picked successor,Vice President Martin Van Buren,after Van Buren won the 1836 presidential election.
Leandra English is an American political advisor serving as an advisor to the Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services. She formerly was the Deputy Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from 2017 until her resignation in 2018. She was the plaintiff in the lawsuit English v. Trump,in which she unsuccessfully sought to have herself acknowledged as Acting Director of the CFPB.
Kendra Suzanne Horn is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,her district included almost all of Oklahoma City.
Carolyn Jordan Bourdeaux is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Georgia's 7th congressional district since 2021. The district is based in Gwinnett County,an affluent suburban county northeast of Atlanta. A member of the Democratic Party,she was a professor at the Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State University from 2003 to 2021.
