What country does South Carolina National Bank of Charleston and Andrew Jackson have in common?
Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress. As president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy" and to preserve the Union.
Gazaway Bugg Lamar Gazaway Bugg Lamar (1798-1874) was a steamboat pioneer from Georgia who went on to found a Wall Street bank. After the start of the American Civil War, he returned to his native Georgia and became active in banking and supporting the war effort in several ways including founding the Importing and Exporting Company of Georgia one of the blockade runners of the American Civil War. At war's end and with Sherman's troops approaching, he took Lincoln's oath (sometimes called the Proclamation of Amnesty) to uphold the United States constitution in return for the promise that all his property rights would be restored. It took until 1874 before he received a settlement of almost $580,000, a huge sum at that time.