Andrew Jackson
By the time he became the president of the United States in 1828, Andrew Jackson already had a background of heroic service in the U.S. military. He is probably the only president who was both in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
When they were fighting the Creeks in the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend, during the War of 1812, he was the commander of U.S. forces. In January 1815, his troops managed to defeat the British in the famous Battle of New Orleans. Over 700 British troops died in the battle, as Jackson’s forces only lost eight soldiers.
The battle didn’t only assure the U.S. victory in the 1812 War, but it also made Jackson Major General in the U.S. Army and opened the doors to the White House for him. As his nickname was “Old Hickory”, he was also noted for managing to survive what’s known to be the first presidential assassination attempt.
Back on January 30, 1835, an unemployed housepainter known as Richard Lawrence tried to shoot Jackson with two pistols, but he misfired with both of them. Jackson was unharmed but full of rage, and that’s when he famously attacked his attacker with only a cane.
Grant was a drunk who should have never had command of a boy scout troop.
What about President George W. Bush ?
There were a few more. Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, William Henry Harrison, James Monroe, Franklin Pierce, and George Bush. (Who was not shot down during the battle of Midway, but later on in the war flying over one of the islands in the Iwo Jima chain).
This is Theodore, thank you for correcting.
Jimmy Carter was in the Submarine Service, you dont get any braver than that!
What about George Bush the fighter pilot shot down twice?
You forgot George H.W. Bush that served as a Navy Pilot in WWII.
This is not Theodore Roosevelt, this is Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was President from 1933 until hill his death in April 1945.
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This is not Theodore Roosevelt. This is his distant cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR, our longest serving president. , elected in 1932. 1936,1940 and 1944. He died in office in April of 1945, did not live to see the end of WW!!. Historians usually agree he was one of our three greatest, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and FDR. I was born in 1931, he was the only President I knew for many years.
THATS FDR NOT TEDDY ROOSEVELT! OMG
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