List of U.S. Presidential Relatives - Relatives of Andrew Jackson - 7th President

7th President

  • John Donelson - father-in-law, co-founder of present-day Nashville, Tennessee
  • Emily Donelson - niece, served as White House hostess during her uncle's term
  • Sarah Yorke Jackson - daughter-in-law, served as White House hostess during her father-in-law's term
  • Andrew Jackson Donelson - nephew and adopted son, 1856 Know-Nothing Party Vice Presidential candidate
  • Daniel Smith Donelson, - nephew, former Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives and Confederate Army officer during the Civil War

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