Donald Barnard Cole (March 31, 1922 – October 5, 2013), born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was

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, and the author of books on early American history, including ''Martin Van Buren and the American Political System'' and ''The Presidency of Andrew Jackson''. Cole was married to Susan Wilson, with whom he had four children: Douglas, Robert, Daniel, and Susan. Cole died on October 5, 2013, in

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. He graduated from

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and

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in 1944. He served in the

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during

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. He served as a lieutenant on a landing craft in the Pacific Theater, including the invasions of Okinawa and Guam.

Published works

*''Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921.'' Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 1963/2002. *''Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire, 1800-1851.'' Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970. *''A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy.'' Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. *''Martin Van Buren and the American Political System.'' Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. *''The Presidency of Andrew Jackson.'' Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1993. *''Vindicating Andrew Jackson: The 1828 Election and the Rise of the Two-Party System''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. ISBN 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.

References

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