Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. He was a lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who gained fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress before being elected to the presidency. Jackson was nominated for president by the Tennessee legislature in October 1825, more than three years before the 1828 election, and he gained powerful supporters in both the South and North. He was inaugurated on March 4, 1829, becoming the first president-elect to take the oath of office on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol.