Nicholas L. Vulich
ASIN: B00E8ASMEE
Publisher: history-bytes
Pages: 70
Andrew Jackson has the dubious honor of being the first President to have an assassination attempt made upon his life.Picture this: Sixty-three year old Andrew Jackson is walking across the Capitol Rotunda. Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter moves to the front of the crowd. He fires two pistol shots into the President.By luck, both pistols misfire. The aging Jackson charges the attempted assassin, beating him to the ground with his cane.Jackson was no stranger to death or weapons. In his lifetime he fought three duels, faced down the Creek Indians, and ultimately fought the final battle of the War of 1812 at New Orleans.Thomas Jefferson wrote: “I feel very much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is one of the most unfit men I know of for the place. He has had very little respect for laws or constitutions, and is, in fact, an able military chief. ...