2015年6月8日 · President Andrew Jackson drew his last breath 170 years ago. He was 78. The country's seventh commander in chief died of a combination of ailments on June 8, 1845. It was a Sunday, and by June...

Poll, nicknamed Polly, was a pet parrot originally owned by Rachel Jackson but adopted after her death by her husband, U.S. president Andrew Jackson. According to an unauthenticated anecdote, Poll had to be removed from Jackson's funeral in 1845 after causing a disturbance by shouting profanities.

2016年3月3日 · Andrew Jackson’s pet bird, Poll, swore like a sailor. The story of a presidential parrot cursing at a funeral is almost too unbelievable to be true. So we thought we had better check out the persistent story that President Andrew Jackson’s pet parrot started uttering obscenities during the former president’s own funeral and had to be removed.

2023年4月5日 · At 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 8, 1845, Andrew Jackson took his last breath. When news of his death was reported, newspapers referred to Jackson, not as former president, but General Andrew Jackson.

That makes the fact that Andrew Jackson had an African grey parrot named Poll less odd, but what is strange is that the bird was kicked out of Jackson’s funeral for swearing.

2021年9月7日 · At least according to the very popular story that Andrew Jackson’s parrot had to be removed from his funeral because it wouldn’t stop swearing. But is this story true, or just another John Quincy Adams alligator tale? We dig into the story, along with reports of Dolley Madison’s terrifying and violent macaw, in Season 3 Episode 2 of the podcast.

2024年7月27日 · On June 8, 1845, the seventh U.S. President, Andrew Jackson, died at his home, The Hermitage, in Tennessee. Thousands came to say goodbye at his funeral. But, an unexpected event happened: Jackson’s African Grey parrot, Poll, started cursing. The cursing parrot was a close friend of the late president.

2019年6月10日 · Andrew Jackson’s African Grey parrot was removed from his funeral at The Hermitage, Tennessee, for swearing so loud and long it disturbed the attendees. Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in...

2012年4月16日 · In the case of Jackson’s funeral, the perception is that Old Hickory’s slaves were appalled by Poll’s language, which she presumably learned from Jackson or other whites on the plantation, because they were too moral to have used that language themselves.