1. Andrew Jackson (January 30, 1835). As Jackson walked through the Capitol, Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter, shot two pistols at him, both of which misfired. Lawrence became the first person ever charged with the attempted assassination of a U.S. president.
2. Theodore Roosevelt (October 14, 1912). Inspired by a dream in which William McKinley told him to shoot the president, John Schrank, a New York bartender, shot Roosevelt during a campaign rally in Milwaukee. Roosevelt survived—perhaps because the bullet had to pass through the fifty-page speech he was carrying in his coat—and delivered his speech before getting medical treatment.
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