Andrew Jackson’s Foul-Mouthed Parrot
Old Hickory owned a parrot named Poll who learned to swear so colorfully that handlers removed the bird from Jackson’s funeral. The parrot had picked up Jackson’s own heated language during White House years. Mourners gasped as Poll squawked expletives during the 1845 service. No one recorded what happened to the bird afterward, but its vocal performance gave Jackson a memorable send-off that matched his fiery personality.
