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life, her country manners and full figure were severely in contrast with Jackson's tall, spindly form and developed genteel manners. However, her love for her husband was unmistakable: she languished when he was away for politics, fretted when he was away at war, and doted on him when he was at home. Unlike Jackson, Rachel never liked being in the spotlight of events. She would consistently warn her husband not to let his political accomplishments rule him; for example, after Jackson's victory at the
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explains that this narrative was concocted during Andrew Jackson's candidacy for president in the 1828 election: in order to "combat the attacks on Jackson’s character and Rachel’s virtue, the Jackson campaign formed the Nashville Committee published a story with a new timeline and circumstances of the Jackson marriage — the alternative facts of the Jackson campaign were that Rachel thought she was already divorced when she joined her fate to Andrew Jackson in 1791."
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adultery, Lewis Robards was granted a divorce in 1794. At about the same time, the legitimacy of the Jackson marriage was questioned because they were married in then-Spanish-controlled Natchez, Mississippi. The Jacksons were Protestants, and only Catholic marriages were recognized as legal unions in that territory. After the divorce was finally legalized in 1794, Andrew and Rachel wed again in a quiet ceremony at the Donelson home.
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In 1793, Andrew and Rachel Jackson learned that although Lewis Robards had filed for divorce, the divorce had never been granted. This made Rachel a bigamist and an adulteress, as well as making General Jackson, soon a politician on the rise, an adulterer. On the grounds of Rachel's abandonment and
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Rachel attracted much attention from suitors because she was very beautiful as a young woman, described by a contemporary as having "lustrous black eyes, dark glossy hair, full red lips, brunette complexion, though of brilliant coloring, a sweet oval face rippling with smiles and dimples." Later in
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In this article, "to elope"/"elopement" (as when Rachel Donelson eloped to Natchez with Andrew Jackson) has two related but incompatible denotations. In the context of the belief that Rachel had been wholly divorced from Lewis Robards, when Rachel elopes, "an unmarried person run away secretly for
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The publicity surrounding her and the public knowledge of what was considered a very private matter caused Rachel to sink into depression. She reputedly told a friend "I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace in Washington." Adding to her stress, in 1828, Lyncoya
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Ann Toplovich of the Tennessee Historical Society argues that the above narrative, of unintentional bigamy and unintentional adultery, has concealed the fact of Rachel's agency and exercise of self-determination, and doesn't "give this strong woman credit for choosing a better husband". Toplovich
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Around 1817 the Jacksons adopted Andrew Jackson Hutchings who was the grandson of Rachel's sister and the son of a former business partner of Jackson's. He attended school with Andrew Jr. and Lyncoya. He then attended colleges in Washington and Virginia while Jackson was president. In 1833, he
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was complicated by the distances involved and the changing governmental authorities. During the process of Rachel and Robards's divorce, Kentucky became a state instead of a territory of Virginia, and North Carolina turned over management of the territory including Tennessee to the federal
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Even though her maladies began as early as 1825, and she was a cigar smoker, Jackson always blamed his political enemies for her death. "May God Almighty forgive her murderers", Jackson swore at her funeral, "I never can."
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In contrast, Ann Toplovich, executive director of the Tennessee Historical Society, writes that Rachel Donelson Robards knowingly left her husband for Andrew Jackson in late 1789, eloping to Spanish-controlled Natchez.
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Although the Jacksons never had biological children, they adopted her nephew in 1809 and named him Andrew Jackson Jr. When his father became president, Andrew Jr. assumed management of the Hermitage farm. He married
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the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse"; however, in the context of Rachel knowing full well that she had not been divorced yet, when Rachel elopes, " run away from home with a paramour".
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see Psalm 84:10 (KJV), "For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness."
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government. These complicating factors were understood by locals and the unusual circumstances of the Jackson marriage were not greatly discussed in Nashville society.
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She was buried on the grounds at the Hermitage wearing the white dress and shoes she had bought for the inaugural ball. Her epitaph, written by
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Jackson died at the Hermitage. Between the scandal, her son's death, and a heart condition she spent much of the campaign depressed and crying.
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She had a close relationship with her husband. She was usually anxious while he was away tending to military or political affairs. A
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According to Toplovich, John Quincy Adams' presidential campaigns targeted Jackson's "passion and lack of self-control" in both
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during the Jackson Administration, reads: "A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor."
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Mary Donelson Caffery (born 1751). Wife of Captain John Caffery. Parents of Jane Caffrey wife of painter
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The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House
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Samuel Donelson (1758–1804), father of Andrew Jackson Donelson and CS General
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and before his inauguration in 1829—therefore she never served as
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Wife of Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States (1767–1828)
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Rachel Jackson was the title character of a 1951 historical novel by
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C. 1830–1832 portrait of President Andrew Jackson by Ralph E.W. Earle
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John Donelson (1755–1830), father of Emily Donelson, first wife of
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Andrew Jackson served as the guardian for the children of Captain
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Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush
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She died suddenly on December 22, 1828, at the age of 61 of a
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Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821
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and of Donelson Caffrey (1786–1835), father of Senator
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The tomb of Andrew and Rachel Jackson at the Hermitage
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about 1670. She had seven brothers and three sisters:
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Index

Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson

Ralph E. W. Earl
Pittsylvania County
Colony of Virginia
British America
Virginia
Davidson County, Tennessee
The Hermitage (Nashville, Tennessee)
Lewis Robards
Andrew Jackson
Lyncoya
John Donelson
Emily Donelson
Andrew Jackson Donelson
Daniel Smith Donelson
John Donelson Martin
John Walker
Sarah Yorke Jackson

née
Andrew Jackson
president of the United States
the Hermitage
his election
first lady
Emily Donelson
Lewis Robards
Nashville
bigamous

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