What is a "Jefferson Jackson" event?

[Kire]

My county committee is having a Jefferson Jackson brunch with Senator Corzine next month and I got curious so I tried to find out the history of the name of it, "Jefferson Jackson". All I could find on Google were a million announcements for other "Jefferson Jackson" lunches, brunches and dinners.

Does anybody know the origin of this phrase? I'd love to create a Demopedia page about it, but I don't really know where to start.

[paineinthearse]

1. The two founders of the Democratic party

Thomas Jefferson & Andrew Jackson. Dinner/events honor their memory.

[Ken Burch]

3. I'm wondering if we should really go on honoring Andrew Jackson

Given that he is basically the author of the Native American Holocaust and was a passionate defender of slavery(and also that he killed a guy in a duel.)

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

7. Well now,

let's be careful of judging men who lived in their times by the standards which we live in ours.
Andrew Jackson's biggest contribution was being the first President to not have been born to wealth and privelege.....

[Ken Burch]

8. And there were a lot of people not born to wealth and privilege

in Andrew Jackson's day who did not accept the idea that we had the
right to drive people off their lands (or make them work for no pay)just because they weren't white.

I mean, by your logic, there should have been no abolitionists in this country.

[bleedingheart]

11. do you know why he killed a man in a duel?

I understand your points but I have to say that he was the product of his times. Sad but true.

Even Jefferson was a slaveholder and probably sired many children on his slave mistress....yet people are still enamored with him.
Also remember that if Jefferson hadn't bought all that territory to the west that perhaps the Native Americans would have been better off....

Sadly no one culture can hold some moral high ground...at one point our ancestors were slaves or conquerors...

[Hippo_Tron]

12. Thomas Jefferson was a Republican

Not a GOP Republican, but a Republican when the two parties were the federalists and the Republicans.

[Orangepeel]

13. Democratic-Republican

usually called "Republican" for short. However, Thomas Jefferson's party eventually morphed into the modern day Democratic party, regardless of what it was called then.

[Upfront]

2. Fund Raiser

The Democratic party in Michigan has one every year which is mainly a fund raiser.

[Hell in a Handbasket]

4. only ones i've been to have been in southern VA.

always seemed like an Old School Dems convention of sorts.

[DrGonzoLives]

5. Fund raiser-type thing

or just an organized semi-formal dinner event.

[FightinNewDem]

6. Fundraiser

In most states, the "JJ" is the major fundraising dinner of the year. The Republican version is the Lincoln Day dinner.

In addition, many local Democratic committees have dinners named after other Dems, such as FDR, JFK, RFK or Harry Truman. Sometimes a local favorite is picked; I believe that in Maine there is a Muskie Day event of some sort, in honor of the late US secretary of state and senator, Ed Muskie.

[MaineDem]

9. We have a Muskie Lobsterbake

This is Maine afterall. :)

Actually, Ed Muskie himself started the tradition.

[Orangepeel]

10. History of the Party

Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic Party in 1792 as a congressional caucus to fight for the Bill of Rights and against the elitist Federalist Party. In 1798, the "party of the common man" was officially named the Democratic-Republican Party and in 1800 elected Jefferson as the first Democratic President of the United States. Jefferson served two distinguished terms and was followed by James Madison in 1808. Madison strengthened America's armed forces — helping reaffirm American independence by defeating the British in the War of 1812. James Monroe was elected president in 1816 and led the nation through a time commonly known as "The Era of Good Feeling" in which Democratic-Republicans served with little opposition.

The election of John Quincy Adams in 1824 was highly contested and led to a four-way split among Democratic-Republicans. A result of the split was the emergence of Andrew Jackson as a national leader. The war hero, generally considered — along with Jefferson — one of the founding fathers of the Democratic Party, organized his supporters to a degree unprecedented in American history. The Jacksonian Democrats created the national convention process, the party platform, and reunified the Democratic Party with Jackson's victories in 1828 and 1832. The Party held its first National Convention in 1832 and nominated President Jackson for his second term. In 1844, the National Convention simplified the Party's name to the Democratic Party.

http://www.democrats.org/about/history.html