Historian David Hackett Fischer said of the Scots-Irish who settled the southern regions of the American colonies that “they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned others to treat them with respect.” To view the flesh and blood embodiment of those immigrants, look at the image on the $20.00 bill—Andrew Jackson. Jackson served Tennessee as territorial attorney general, state representative, senator, and Tennessee Supreme Court judge. But it was Andrew Jackson’s military service that brought him national popularity. He took 2,000 Tennessee volunteers into Alabama territory in the midst of the War of 1812 and decisively defeated the “Red Stick” Creek tribe. He then took his army to defend New Orleans, and defeated a veteran British Army in January of 1815. From there, the hero seized Florida from Spain and then inserted himself into Washington politics again, in a run for President of the United States. Jackson served two terms as President, hugely popular with the common man. No single man had a greater impact on the United States and its direction in history than the man known as the “Hero,” “Old Hickory,” “King Andrew I,” and some unprintable titles. He is still a target of assassins, and his magnificent equestrian statues in New Orleans, Nashville, and Washington DC are targets of rioters and revolutionaries in our iconoclastic times. The statues, like their subject, have repelled all attackers so far.