Donald Barnard Cole (March 31, 1922 – October 5, 2013), born inLawrence, Massachusetts, wasprofessor emeritus atPhillips Exeter Academy,New Hampshire, and the author of books onearly American history, includingMartin Van Buren and the American Political System andThe Presidency of Andrew Jackson.^[1]

Cole was married to Susan Wilson, with whom he had four children: Douglas, Robert, Daniel, and Susan. Cole died on October 5, 2013, inExeter, New Hampshire.^[2]

He graduated fromPhillips Academy andHarvard University in 1944. He served in theNavy duringWorld War II. He served as a lieutenant on a landing craft in the Pacific Theater, including the invasions of Okinawa and Guam.

• Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 1963/2002.ISBN 0-8078-5408-5^[3]
• Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire, 1800-1851. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.ISBN 0-674-46990-9
• A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.ISBN 0-8071-2930-5
• Martin Van Buren and the American Political System. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984.ISBN 0-691-04715-4
• The Presidency of Andrew Jackson. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1993.ISBN 0-7006-0600-9
• Vindicating Andrew Jackson: The 1828 Election and the Rise of the Two-Party System. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009.ISBN 978-0-7006-1661-9
• Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee's Journal, 1828-1870 (with Benjamin B. French & John J. McDonough). Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1989.ISBN 0-87451-467-3^[4][5]

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