Opinion: The assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump is not unprecedented. Andrew Jackson was nearly murdered in the 1830s.

In 1828, with the backing of his new party, Andrew Jackson ran for the presidency once again. Jackson handily beat Adams in the election and went on to become the nation’s seventh president.

But if Trump declined to condemn calls for violence against his vice president, an earlier president went further. In the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson - whom Trump has repeatedly said he ...

President Donald Trump, beneath a portrait of President Andrew Jackson, speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 1. Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images Tweet Share Share Comment ...

Andrew Jackson was born 250 years ago this March 15. For much of that quarter-millennium, he was one of the most admired figures in American life.

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Jackson, in turn, believed that Randolph was the tool of political opponents, including his former vice president, John C. Calhoun, conspiring to derail the agenda of his second term.

This was back before presidents and vice presidents ran on a single ticket, so Calhoun started off as John Quincy Adams’s vice president and then continued in the role after Andrew Jackson ...