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WillK
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« on: December 15, 2008, 09:54:25 PM »
Quote from: Beet on December 15, 2008, 09:46:52 PM
... After all, this is the region that gave us our first non-aristocrat President ...

Who are you referring to? 
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WillK
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« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2008, 10:03:20 PM »
Quote from: Mideast Governor Benconstine on December 15, 2008, 09:55:38 PM
Quote from: WillK on December 15, 2008, 09:54:25 PM
Quote from: Beet on December 15, 2008, 09:46:52 PM
... After all, this is the region that gave us our first non-aristocrat President ...

Who are you referring to? 

Andrew Jackson.

Huh.  I guess it must depend on your definition of 'non-aristocrat' because I don't see it. 
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WillK
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« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2008, 10:27:58 PM »
Quote from: Htmldon, "Community Organizer" on December 15, 2008, 10:08:42 PM
Quote from: WillK on December 15, 2008, 10:03:20 PM
Quote from: Mideast Governor Benconstine on December 15, 2008, 09:55:38 PM
Quote from: WillK on December 15, 2008, 09:54:25 PM
Quote from: Beet on December 15, 2008, 09:46:52 PM
... After all, this is the region that gave us our first non-aristocrat President ...

Who are you referring to? 

Andrew Jackson.

Huh.  I guess it must depend on your definition of 'non-aristocrat' because I don't see it. 

Surely at some point in your superior yankee education you learned at least a tiny morsel of American history.

I have learned much more than a morsel.    
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WillK
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« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2008, 11:14:57 PM »
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Jackson was born and raised on his uncle's farm, a substantial place tended by slaves, and had himself inherited 200 acres from his father and later a nice sum of money from his grandfather.  

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By the 1820s Jackson lived the aristocrat lifestyle as master of the Hermitage.
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WillK
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« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2008, 11:37:36 PM »
Quote from: Beet on December 15, 2008, 10:51:02 PM
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Economically the Adamses were not in the elite, but his parents were descended from the original 'founding families' from the 1630s by blood lineage, and Congregationalist Puritans. It was surely this background that afforded him his Harvard education.

JA got a partial scholarship from Harvard and his father sold off part of his farm to pay for the rest. 
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