Jackson Portrait (opposite p. 11 in extra-illustrated Life)

A portrait of “General Andrew Jackson” opposite the narration of Jackson’s appointment to the Tennessee constitutional convention in 1796—his first political office. He was elected to the House of Representatives that year when Tennessee entered the Union as a state and became a Senator the following year. This image started its life as the frontispiece of Snelling’s A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson, as originally published, but in this extra-illustrated edition it is buried further in the text.

Jackson Portrait (opposite p. 11 in extra-illustrated Life)

From extra-illustrated copy of A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson [catalog record]