Andrew Jackson, like George Washington, was sterile due to having had smallpox.
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I low-key believe that he was sterile by divine design.
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Smallpox but yeah.
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At the beginning of the war, as smallpox ravaged his new army, Washington boldly & calmly rode around camp meeting with his sick men. They did not know of his earlier battle with the disease as a teen, and his composure gave him an almost divine quality to them.
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