Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767,to Presbyterian Scots-Irish immigrants Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, approximately two years after they had emigrated from Carrickfergus, in Northern Ireland. Three weeks after his father's death, Andrew was born in the Waxhaws area near the border between North and South Carolina. He was the youngest of the Jacksons' three sons. His exact birth site was the subject of conflicting lore in the area. Jackson claimed to have been born in a cabin just inside South Carolina.
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