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.
Andrew Jackson's Firsts. Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States, but he was the first in many other ways. Introduction. Born in poverty, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) had become a wealthy Tennessee lawyer and rising young politician by 1812, when war broke out between the United States and Britain. His leadership in that conflict earned Jackson national fame as a military hero, and he would become Americaâs most influentialâand polarizingâpolitical figure during the 1820s and 1830s.