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Bean would retain his freedom. Suddenly, a challenger appeared in the doorway of the courthouse. All eyes focused on the tall, thin man with a pistol clutched in each hand. He advanced deliberately toward Bean. All the bystanders and even the raging giant fell silent. As the pursuer leveled one of his pistols, the onlookers were amazed to see that it was none other than the presiding judge himself. Andrew Jackson of the Tennessee Superior Court had come, determined to preserve justice on the frontier against any threat. Before the Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans made Jackson a national hero, he earned his living in the legal profession. It may seem strange that someone like Jackson, who famously preferred action to words and would one day defy a Supreme Court decision as president, should turn to the practice of law. But the establishment of justice in the early days of the republic often required a man of Jacksons skill and demeanor. In the early 1. 9th century, Tennessee lay on the edge of American civilization. Indian raids, encouraged by both British and Spanish colonial leaders, were still common. The nations new capital, Washington, D. C., was more than 6. Life was tough and, as one writer put it, often the settlers would rather have an ounce of justice than a pound of law. Jackson fit the bill. He practiced his profession with the same righteous intensity he brought to all of his endeavors. Jackson first began to take an interest in law following the American Revolution. Several factors in the state of the nation made this an attractive choice. Americas recently earned independence meant a new legal system had to be established specific to the country and to each state. Square-dance.jpg' alt='Square Dance Rotation Programs' title='Square Dance Rotation Programs' />Many pro British Tory barristers had fled the new nation, leaving a void in the profession for young American lawyers to fill. Additionally, the ceaseless westward movement of new settlers meant there would be a frontier in need of taming. Good lawyers and judges were imperative to civilizing the wilderness. After a church, a courthouse was usually the next public building to appear in any settlement of consequence. While it is not clear why Jackson consciously chose to practice law, it is clear why he selected a career that would take him away from his birthplace in the Waxhaw District straddling North and South Carolina, where he was born on March 1. The Revolution had raged through the area, pitting pa triot Whig against Tory, neighbor against neighbor and father against son. Following in the footsteps of his older brothers, young Andrew joined the cause of independence at age 1. Jackson was eventually captured and imprisoned. During his captivity, he was wounded by a British officer and he contracted smallpox. His father had died before he was born, and his two brothers and mother perished during the war. Having suffered through hardship, severe wounding, life threatening illness and the loss of his immediate family, Jackson never forgot the price he and others had paid to obtain Americas liberties. By 1. 78. 3 Jackson was a 1. His surviving relatives apparently held little affection for the irascible boy, who looked desperately for an escape from their staid existence. To remain in the Waxhaws meant to have a quiet, modest life. Such was not Jacksons fate. Although his mother had intended for him to be a clergyman, and his mothers family taught him the saddling trade, Jackson must have seen opportunities to travel and earn a decent living as an attorney. Before his 1. 8th birthday, Jackson rode to Salisbury, N. C., and entered the law office of Mr. Spruce Mc. Cay, where he began his legal studies. A legal education in post Revolution North Carolina was a far cry from the more formalized education of todays law schools. It was far removed even from contemporary legal programs in England or in the American Northeast, where John Quincy Adams was commencing his higher education at Harvard College. This less formalized Southern education complemented a wilder lifestyle. And Jackson was never far from chicanery. He fell into a crowd of like minded peers, engaging in cock fighting, horseracing, drunken revelry and pranks. On one occasion, after concluding a pleasant dinner at a local tavern, the young men decided that a finer time should not and would never be had with the dining ware they had used. They made good on their feelings by shattering the plates and glasses. Then they broke the table in two, battered the chairs and other furniture into splinters, heaped it all into a pile and set the pile ablaze. Some of his indiscretions were less destructive but more scandalous. The young Jackson ruffled feathers when, in helping organize a Christmas ball at the towns dancing school, he invited two notorious prostitutes. The women took the invitation seriously, to the universal embarrassment of all present at their arrival. It was a cruel joke, and Jackson later apologized to the other women at the ball it is not clear if he ever apologized to the prostitutes. This remains the only occasion in which Jackson was less than ideally chivalrous in his dealings with women. In spite of his youthful distractions, there is reason to believe Jackson was serious in his legal studies. As one of his early biographers, James Parton, claimed in his 1. Life of Andrew Jackson At no part of Jacksons career, when we can get a look at him through a pair of trustworthy eyes, do we find him trifling with life. We find him often wrong, but always earnest. He never so much as raised a field of cotton which he did not have done in the best manner known to him. It was not in the nature of this young man to take a great deal of trouble to get a chance to study law, and then entirely to throw away that chance. In 1. 78. 6 Jackson left Mc. Cays office and moved to that of Colonel John Stokes, where he completed his legal education. On September 2. 6, 1. Samuel Ashe and John F. Williams of the Superior Court of Law and Equity of North Carolina authorized him to practice as an attorney, finding him to be a man of unblemished moral character and knowledgeable in the law. At the age of 2. 0, Andrew Jackson was ready to begin his life of public service in the courtrooms of North Carolina. The next year of Jacksons life was spent mostly in Martinsville, N. C. Legal work was sparse, and Jackson made do working as a constable and assisting in the management of a store with two of his friends. Even with three jobs, his means were limited. During one of his travels to court in the town of Richmond, Jackson stayed at the inn of Jesse Lister, and apparently left without paying his bill.