What color is Andrew Jackson's hair?

Answer 1

Here is an update: (We did not write the 'red' response at the bottom of the page) After researching and researching and researching we have found only "brown", "dirty-blonde"/blondish"/"light-brown" to be correct as Andrew Jackson's hair color. Researching for our documentary film on 'redheads', (and being redheads), we learned a quite a bit and of course ways to look into black & white photographs (very few photos of A.Jackson) / paintings only type of people. Paintings/Portraits of a younger Andrew Jackson (when his hair was not white/grey) all show light brown hair. (And a few show dark brown hair). Also, when his "5 O'Clock shadow" (facial hair showing) was painted it was always with very dark brown, almost black hair. (Yes, red/orange/yellow/gold paint was available). The pictures we are all used to seeing of A.J. are not even black & white, but "SEPIA". What does Sepia make white hair look like? (A golden sepia). Also, Andrew Jackson did not have a redheads skin / eye-lashes, eye-brows, etc. When you look at certain people that have fake red hair, especially with the popularity of girls doing so, it is quite simple to see that so many of them are not a 'natural redhead'. It is clearly the same with Andrew Jackson. (And that hot Southern sun which he was riding-out in so much would have surely brought forth obvious *freckles* in a real redhead. Even if Jackson had a slight tinge of 'chestnut' to his hair in the direct sunlight, that of course does not make him a redhead. Verdict: Andrew Jackson was NOT a redhead. His hair color is documented as light brown. For Presidents WITH red hair, check out Thomas Jefferson and young George Washington. -E & friends.

Sources: We tried to list our sources here (the web page links) but links are not allowed here. A simple search on bing images will show you sufficient pieces.

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It was red. HE was a reddish haired man until his late 50's and all through out his presidency. He had grayish, brown hair