condescending. 1  1 : to stoop to the level of someone considered less important These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person â¦ â Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer. 2  2 : to grant favors with a show of being better than others She only condescended to speak to me because she needed something.
Jackson was renominated to run for President in 1825, three years before the next election. John C. Calhoun was his Vice President. The party became known as the Democrats at this time. He ran against incumbent John Quincy Adams of the National Republican Party.
With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced statesâ rights views.