WI: Andrew Jackson 3rd Term

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Let's say Andrew Jackson runs for President in 1836. Does he win? How large is his victory. I think he would win just because he was so popular.

What does he do? Does he run again in 1840?

What about Henry Clay and John C Calhoun? He said his last regrets were not shooting and hanging them. Will there be more problems with them?

How does this effect history and expansion?
 
I could see the Henry Clay trying to set up a Opposition President to counter balance the Presidency and John C. Calhoun turning the rest of the Democratic against him.

He would choose his adopted son, Andrew Jackson Donelson, as his 3rd Term, VP, making sure his legacy would carry on with AJD as the next president.

Britain would keep the border of Canada and the USA as OTL, with a strong foreign and defence policy in Parliament meaning the US will have to concentrate moving South, taking Mexico and the Caribbean Islands.

After Jackson's 3 terms, the 22nd Amendment would most likely be brought through early affecting the President of FDR.

Would having him turn out to be an OTL Napoleon III be out of the picture? Claiming to be Elected-Emperor of the American Imperial Democratic States (AIDS)
 
The problem is that the Panic iof 1837 was blamed on Van Buren, but he'd have no way to avoid the blame if he ran for a 3rd term.

Unless he cancelled or somehow rigged the election, I see the Whigs winning in 1840; and Jackson might just be conceited enough to think he would win anyway. Not only that, he was 74, so might decline to run.

If his son runs instead of him, it's likely that his son would get tarred with his stain in the Panic.
 
I can't see him losing against the divided Whig opposition, especially since he would do better in the South than Van Buren. Of course, Jackson would then get hit with the 1837 Depression, and the Whigs would win both houses in 1838. They might try impeaching him, and certainly will pass a term limits amendment (probably banning consecutive presidential terms altogether, like the Whigs wanted)
 
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