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Why was Andrew Jackson called Old Hickory?

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Why was Andrew Jackson called Old Hickory?

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He was called that because "he was as tough as an old hickory".

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Andrew Jackson's soldiers in the war of 1812 gave him the nickname "Old Hickory" because they said he was as tough as the wood of a hickory tree.

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