President Andrew Jackson had some 20,000 of his supporters attend a celebration around the White House following his first inauguration in 1829. The mob quickly grew rowdy, however, with fights ...

This tradition initially began in 1837, when Andrew Jackson attended the inauguration of Martin Van ... presidency was transferred to an opposing party,” according to The White House Historical ...

Andrew Jackson was known for opening the White House to all visitors; his inauguration party at the White House lasted for hours as throngs of people from packed streets pushed inside for a rowdy ...

Jackson’s first election was opposed by his four living predecessors, as Trump’s was by his five. But Jackson was the first and so far only president who determined his party’s presidential ...

More than a decade later, in 1833, former President Andrew Jackson’s inauguration also took place inside the House Chamber “because of his ill health and bad weather,” the JCCIC says.

President Trump’s redecorated Oval Office includes a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a fresh Andrew Jackson painting, part of an Inauguration Day overhaul of the most exclusive office space in ...