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President Andrew Jackson was also nearly killed by an assassin
Mark R. Cheathem is professor of history and project director of the Papers of Martin Van Buren at Cumberland University. The failed assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump Saturday has ignited calls for unity and more temperate rhetoric as …