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Andrew Jackson Jr. (December 4, 1808 – April 17, 1865) was the son of seventh U.S. President Andrew Jackson. Born a twin, the fifth-born of nine biological children of Rachel's brother Severn Donelson, and Elizabeth Rucker, he was taken to the Hermitage when he was three days old. was the one adoptee or ward with whom "the Jacksons had a special relationship" and whom "they regarded as their own child." When Severn Donelson died in 1818, he did not ask Jackson to be guardian to his surviving children (including Andrew Jackson Jr.'s biological twin brother), and instead selected his brother William Donelson to be guardian. According to Remini, Andrew Jackson Jr. "grew up irresponsible and ambitionless, a considerable disappointment to his father." He shot himself while hunting in 1865 and died a week later of lockjaw.

References

1. Galloway, Linda Bennett (1950). "Andrew Jackson, Junior". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 9 (3): 195–216. ISSN 0040-3261.
2. Meredith (2013), pp. 32–42.
3. Meredith (2013), p. 47.
4. Remini (1977), p. 317.
5. "General news" NYT April 22, 1865, Page 4 https://www.nytimes.com/1865/04/22/archives/general-news.html

Sources

• Meredith, Rachel (May 2013). "There Was Somebody Always Dying and Leaving Jackson as Guardian": The Wards of Andrew Jackson (M.A. History thesis). Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Middle Tennessee State University. ProQuest 1538368.
• Remini, Robert V. (1977). Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-8018-5912-0. LCCN 77003766. OCLC 1145801830.