Horses of Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson, who served as the seventh U.S. president from 1829 to 1837, was involved with horse trading, and the racehorse business, for much of his life. Jackson-as-equestrian was central to his identity and remains a major part of his public image; historian Donald B. Cole wrote that Marquis James' two-volume biography of Jackson, though Pulitzer Prize-winning, failed to supersede biographies by James Parton and John Spencer Bassett because James was "content to portray Jackson as a man on horseback."

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