Thanks to YouGov for sponsoring this video. I’m Mr. Beat On January 30, 1835, a dude who spent most
of his free time painting houses attempted to become the first known person in American
history to attempt to assassinate the President of the United States.
This dude’s name was Richard Lawrence, and he possibly suffered from a mental disorder
called schizophrenia. He often would wander around having meaningless conversations with himself.
On the morning of Friday, January 30, 1835, he sat in his paint shop with a book in his
hand, laughing hysterically. Then, all of sudden, Lawrence jumped up and said “I’ll be damned if I don’t do it.”
He went to the U.S. Capitol…to the funeral of a U.S. Representative from South Carolina named Warren Davis.
He went there to shoot the President. At the end of the funeral, he found a space near one of the capitol’s pillars and waited
for the President to pass. Finally, the President came, and as he walked by, Lawrence stepped out and fired his pistol
at the President’ s back. The first bullet misfired. He quickly attempted another shot with his second pistol, but it ALSO misfired.
By this time, the 67-year old President had begun attempting to beat the crap out of Lawrence
with his walking cane. Davy Crocket, who was a U.S. Representative of Tennessee at the time and who would die
just over a year after this event at the Battle of the Alamo, tackled Lawrence to the ground.
The President kept trying to beat Lawrence with his cane, but others pulled him back. That President was Andrew Jackson.
(turns) The likelihood of both pistols misfiring, by the way, was 125,000 to 1.
(turns) Here’s the story of one of the luckiest, but also probably the toughest, and most terrifying,
presidents in American History.
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Andrew Jackson was born in the Waxhaws, a region near the present-day border of northern
South Carolina and southern North Carolina…boy that’s a bit confusing…on March 15, 1767.
Andrew’s parents, Elizabeth and Andrew Jackson, Sr., were Ulster Scots who had moved from
Pennsylvania to the Carolinas two years prior. Uh yeah…they may have squatted on land when they got there.
Sadly, though, Andrew never knew his dad, who died in a logging accident three weeks
before he was born. Andrew was the youngest of three children, having two older brothers- Hugh and Robert.
After the death of their father, Elizabeth moved the family in with her sister, Jane Crawford, and her husband and family.
Elizabeth not only raised Andrew and his brothers, but also took care of Andrew’s cousins,
Jane’s eight children. To Andrew, his mother was kind of a superhero. Andrew’s family were members of the Presbyterian church.
Elizabeth wanted Andrew to be a minister and scrounged up enough money for him to learn
Latin and Greek. However, she quickly realized he wasn’t fit for being a minister due to his wild temper
and general rebelliousness. And when I say Elizabeth “scrounged” up money, I mean she really “scrounged” up
money. The family was poor. As you might have assumed, Andrew often got into fights with other boys growing up.
He often LOST fights, but always got right back up and continued to fight.
Andrew didn’t get much formal schooling. He was never really that good at writing or spelling. After the American War of Independence broke out, the Jacksons were definitely on the side