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Major General Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president, a delegate to the Tennessee constitutional convention in 1796, the first man elected from Tennessee to the House of Representatives (1796 to 1797), a U.S. senator in 1797, a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1798 to 1804, and a major general in the Tennessee militia.
During the War of 1812, Jackson was commissioned a major general in the U.S. Army and became a hero, defeating the British at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. He invaded Spanish-held Florida in 1818. Following Florida's cession to the United States, Jackson served as its territorial governor in 1821. He died on 8 June 1845, in Nashville.