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When a House Painter Failed to Assassinate President Andrew Jackson, It Was the First Such Attempt in U.S. Presidential History
On January 30, 1835, unemployed house painter Richard Lawrence tried to change the course of history with an attempt to assassinate then-President Andrew Jackson. That cold and dreary Friday, Jackson ...
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Andrew Jackson
Born: March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina... Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, and his populist appeal lay in his message of inclusion against what he characterized ...