Would the US Bank have been rechartered? What would have been the ramifications on the SC nullification crisis? Might it have spread and triggered an ACW several decades early?
WI Pres Jackson was assassinated
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On January 30, 1835, President Andrew Jackson was leaving the United States Capitol build, while walking through the East Portico after the funeral of South Carolina Representative Warren R. Davis.
Jackson was just nearing the exit, when Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter from England, aimed a pistol at Jackson, which hits him in the chest. He is rushed to hospital but dies later that night.
He becomes the first President to be assassinated.
Martin Van Buren was inaguirated as the 8th President of the United States of America on January 31st.
Like Jackson, Van Buren to did not like the idea of the Bank of the United States, this is why Van Buren became most prominent candidate for the vice-presidency,
Lawrence was brought to trial on April 11, 1835 at the District of Columbia City Hall. The prosecuting attorney was Francis Scott Key. At his trial, Lawrence was prone to wild rants and he refused to recognize the legitimacy of the proceedings. At one point he said to the courtroom, "It is for me, gentlemen, to pass judgment on you, and not you upon me". After only five minutes of deliberation, the jury found Lawrence "not guilty by reason of insanity."[8] In the years following his conviction, Lawrence was held by several institutions and hospitals. In 1855, he was committed to the newly opened Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington, D.C. where he remained until his death on June 13, 1861.
Along with Lawrence, Senator John C. Calhoun and Senator George Poindexter were both put on trial and although no evidence was ever discovered, both Senators were defected from standing again in the senate while spending life in person exile.