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 earlier biographies written by James Parton and John Spencer Bassett because James was "content to portray Jackson as a man on horseback." == History == He worked as a horse trader from a very early age, such that by age 15 in 1782 he was already considered "shrewd." When he worked as a merchant and slave trader in the 1790s and 1800s, he or his assistant John Hutchings often shipped both horses and people to "the lower country" for resale.