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In short, Jackson was a complex and fascinating man, and none too gentle with his adversaries (see above about his tendency to get into duels), and certainly shaped the United States as we know it today. Most importantly, he transformed the Presidency into the people's agent with broad powers to shape policy. And that's just the short version.
Technically, the last of the Founding Fathers-era Presidents (although some assign that status to either James Monroe or John Quincey Adams); beginning with Van Buren the remainder of 19th-century Presidents have an air of trivia-question obscurity (with [[Abraham Lincoln|one obvious exception]] [[James K. Polk|and some other]] [[Ulysses S. Grant|borderline cases]].).
His [[Last Words]] were purported to be ''"I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay, and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun."''
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