That was barely the tip of the iceberg when it came to Jackson. The dude was a complete lunatic. Besides almost beating his would-be assassin to death, he actually succeeded in killing a bunch of people, some of them on the White House lawn. Reports differ, but he definitely killed between a dozen to hundreds of people in duels back in the day. Actual, honest-to-goodness duels. You know, the twenty paces, turn and fire sort of thing. Most infamous of his victims was Charles Dickinson, an attorney and expert marksman who apparently screwed Jackson over on a horse racing bet and then had the gall to insult his wife. So he shot him. Before he was president, but still!
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