Andrew Jackson

**Andrew Jackson** is a historic President of the United States.

### Tom Sawyer Island

Jackson used to make an appearance in Fort Wilderness alongside a figure of Georgie Russell and Davy Crockett, representing them during the wartimes of the Creek war.

## Connections

### Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

It is possible that much of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad's story is connected to the ramifications of Jackson's horrific rule. Namely, the crimes commit against the Indigenous Shoshone peoples of Big Thunder Mountain by Henry Ravenswood and the Big Thunder Mining Company in relation to Jackson's infamous, "Trail of Tears".

#### Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn & Cafe

Jackson's former subordinates Davy Crockett and the fictitious George "Georgie" Russell are both commemorated by Pecos Bill within this Tumbleweed inn & cafe.

#### Tobias Norton & Sons, Frontier Traders

This shop in Thunder Mesa was run by Tobias Norton, Andrew's fictitious Lieutenant from the Davy Crockett TV series

### Haunted Mansion

Jackson's privateer from the War of 1812 Jean Lafitte is frequently referenced in non-canon materials for the Haunted Mansion such as the comics by SLG where he was an ally to the mansion's founder William Gracey, in the 2003 film continuity where he was an affiliate of Captain Ambrose Gracey who built the mansion, or the audio-book Nuptial Doom where the sea-captain who owned the mansion was a compatriot of Lafitte. These are based on how in an unused concept for the mansion, catacombs under the manor entered through Lafitte's tomb would lead to a pirate's lair on Tom Sawyer Island. Additionally, the clothes worn by Jackson from Tom Sawyer Island appear in the collection of Constance Hatchaway.

### Pirates of the Caribbean

Jackson Island has a history of having been used by pirates of the Caribbean such as Jack Sparrow, William Turner, Elizabeth Swann and Davy Jones as shown in Disneyland's *Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island*. Jean Lafitte is frequently affiliated with the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. For example, Lafitte is the namesake of Laffite's Landing between the Royal Street Gallery and the Blue Bayou of New Orleans. In Disneyland Paris, a portrait of the smuggler was in the possession of the citizens of Puerto Dorado, Isla Tesoro during the island's ransacking at the hands of the Wicked Wench (odd considering that he wouldn't have been born yet).

## Trivia

* The Hall of Presidents' Andrew Jackson's mould was reused in the EPCOT attraction Spaceship Earth to be an early printer working under Gutenberg.
* Jackson is not the only President of the United States to be featured within the Disney Park mythology:
	+ Abraham Lincoln is well known for having been the first audio-animatronic figure of a human in both Disney and human history. A photograph of him is featured in Phantom Manor's Phantom Canyon scene. Abraham Lincoln is mentioned in the Haunted Mansion book *Tales from the Haunted Mansion: Volume I: The Fearsome Foursome* as having met the mansion's librarian Amicus Arcane.
	+ Theodore Roosevelt was a member of the Adventurers Club, a passenger aboard Cornelius Endicott II's S.S. Columbia, and a friend of Trader Sam from the Jungle Cruise.
* In the Hall of Presidents Andrew Jackson is voiced by Dallas McKennon who voiced the Old Prospector in Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.

## References

1. ↑ http://schmoofy.com/fictional-frontier-pecos-bill/
2. ↑ http://disneyshawn.blogspot.com/2011/07/mosey-on-back-to-town.html
3. ↑ https://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2010/09/jean-lafitte-and-mega-theme-temptation.html
4. ↑ https://www.themeparktourist.com/features/20140412/17512/10-dead-american-presidents-who-got-bizarre-new-jobs-walt-disney-world
5. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BdK88XzFdXc/