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I only brought up Jackson in the context of having defied the Supreme Court.

In other contexts he was the most personally violent president we've ever had, having been shot, having killed a man, and having been charged in separate incidents, with assault and battery (convicted), and assault with intent to kill (acquitted)..

"He was recognized from the first as a man who 'would fight at the drop of a hat, and drop the hat himself.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_violent_incidents_involving_Andrew_Jackson

Andrew Jackson is credited with saying "I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun."

So there's all that.

One Delaware voter wrote his local newspaper to this effect:[11]

It would be an endless task to notice with proper comment the many disqualifying traits in the character and conduct of General Jackson. I shall, therefore, for the present, only notice some of those breaches of law, both human and divine, contempt of order and good government, and violations of the principles of humanity of which he has been guilty and which are not denied by his partizans but which they attempt to excuse or justify—and then simply ask whether such excuses and justifications will satisfy your minds that such a man ought to be president of this Union...They do not deny, that Andrew Jackson has often been engaged in the most disgraceful broils and riots in the streets and taverns of Nashville, shooting with pistols and stabbing with dirks on all hands of him. But they tell you that we have no right to investigate his private character, and that his quarrels, duels, adulteries and murders, furnish no arguments against his fitness for an office, where patience, ability and virtuous principles are indispensable requisites to the continuance of the good Government and liberties of our country.[11]