Editing Andrew Jackson (section)

==Later life and death (1837–1845)==
[[File:Andrew Jackson Daguerrotype (flipped image).jpg|thumb|left|A [[mezzotint]] after a [[daguerreotype]] of Jackson in 1845]]

Jackson's presidency ended on March 4, 1837. Jackson left Washington, D.C., three days later, retiring to the Hermitage in Nashville, where he remained influential in national and state politics.{{sfn|Latner|2002|p=121}} To reduce the [[inflation]] caused by the Panic of 1837, Jackson supported an [[Independent Treasury]] system that would restrict the government from printing [[Banknote|paper money]] and require it to hold its money in silver and gold.{{sfn|Lansford|Woods|2008|p=1046}}

During the [[1840 United States presidential election|1840 presidential election]],{{sfn|Remini|1984|pp=462–470}} Jackson campaigned for Van Buren in Tennessee, but Van Buren had become unpopular during the continuing depression.  The Whig Party nominee, [[William Henry Harrison]], won the election using a campaign style similar to that of the Democrats: Van Buren was depicted as an uncaring aristocrat, while Harrison's war record was glorified, and he was portrayed as a man of the people.{{sfn|Brands|2005|p=475}} Harrison won the 1840 election and the Whigs captured majorities in both houses of Congress,{{sfn|Remini|1984|p=470}} but Harrison died a month into his term, and was replaced by his vice president, former Democrat [[John Tyler]]. Jackson was encouraged because Tyler was not bound to party loyalties and praised him when he vetoed two Whig-sponsored bills to establish a new national bank in 1841.{{sfn|Remini|1984|pp=475–476}}

Jackson lobbied for the [[Texas annexation|annexation of Texas]]. He was concerned that the British could use it as a base to threaten the United States{{sfn|Wilentz|2005|pp=161–163}} and insisted that it was part of the [[Louisiana Purchase]].{{sfn|Remini|1984|p=492}} Tyler signed a treaty of annexation in April 1844, but it became associated with the expansion of slavery and was not ratified. Van Buren, who had been Jackson's preferred candidate for the Democratic Party in the 1844 presidential election, had opposed annexation. Disappointed by Van Buren, Jackson convinced fellow Tennessean [[James K. Polk]], who was then set to be Van Buren's running mate, to run as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee instead.  Polk defeated Van Buren for the nomination and won the general election against Jackson's old enemy, Henry Clay. Meanwhile, the Senate passed a bill to annex Texas, and it was signed on March 1, 1845.{{sfn|Wilentz|2005|pp=162–163}}

Jackson died of [[Edema|dropsy]], [[tuberculosis]], and [[heart failure]]<ref name="healthguidance">{{cite web |title=The Health Of The President: Andrew Jackson |last=Marx |first=Rudolph |url=http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/8908/1/The-Health-Of-The-President-Andrew-Jackson.html |website=healthguidance.org |access-date=December 18, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222053053/http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/8908/1/The-Health-Of-The-President-Andrew-Jackson.html |archive-date=December 22, 2017 }}</ref> at 78 years of age on June 8, 1845. His deathbed was surrounded by family, friends, and slaves, and he was recorded to have said, "Do not cry; I hope to meet you all in Heaven—yes, all in Heaven, white and black."{{sfn|Meacham|2008|p=345}} He was buried in the same tomb as his wife Rachel.{{sfn|Remini|1984|p=526}}