Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was an American military officer and politician who founded the Confederation of the Carolinas during the collapse of the Old Republic. He was killed during an ill-fated and bloody war with Virginia, and thereafter became known as the "Eternal Chancellor" by Carolinians for the rest of their history.
Andrew Jackson took to being called a "vulture" by his enemies, and made the bird his personal symbol. It would quickly be adopted as the national bird of the Carolinas and its most popular symbol, behind only the Carolinian Crescent.