Southern Magnolia

$95.00

When Baker left this office to come back home to Tennessee, President Reagan and members of the National Park Service, gave the Senator a cutting from old Andy’s tree, to ‘bring back to Tennessee.’

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M
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7-10
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60-80'
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Howard Baker / Andrew Jackson

When Andrew Jackson went to the White House as the nation's seventh president he took a cutting from a Magnolia tree from his home, The Hermitage, near Nashville. This branch was planted in the White House lawn in memory of his beloved wife, Rachel, who two weeks after he won the election to the presidency and prior to his March 4, 1829, inauguration.

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