by James Hickman
Schiff Sovereign
Andrew Jackson was never supposed to be President.
When he entered the presidential race in 1828, most of the ‘experts’ viewed him as a joke candidate with no chance of victory. Party insiders assumed that, at most, Jackson might steal a few votes from opposition candidates… but that he was no real threat.
Instead, Andrew Jackson caught fire. He was the ultimate outsider with very little experience in Washington (he had briefly served as US Senator from Tennessee for just six months), and he spoke bluntly about the problems affecting everyday Americans.
And when he unexpectedly won the election and became the country’s 7th President, Jackson’s first order of business was to clean house. He announced in his inaugural address that he would remove incompetent bureaucrats from office, and he immediately launched an investigation into all departments to root out corruption.