Booth and Andrew Jackson

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I believe there was only one attempt on Jackson, and that was by Richard Lawrence in 1835 - when Junius, Jr. would have been too young.

It may be from Bill Richter's Last Confederate Heroes that I first learned that Junius the Elder, Sam Houston, and Andrew Jackson were drinking buddies. Of course, JWB and Andrew Johnson were reported to party together also while Johnson was still military governor of Tennessee.