The Jackson magnolia had stood on the South Lawn near the South Portico for all or part of three centuries and dozens of ...

Donald Trump announced his intent to remove a longstanding magnolia tree from the grounds of the White House. The tree and its counterpart were planted shortly after Andrew Jackson took office, in ...

The nation's seventh president brought the seeds of a magnolia from his home near Nashville, Tennessee in the early 1800s.

In the 1828 presidential election, Gen. Andrew Jackson denied John Quincy Adams a second term in office. Before coming to Washington from Tennessee, Old Hickory’s beloved wife Rachel died suddenly. To ...