Richard Lawrence the failed assassin of Andrew Jackson

Richard was born in England in 1800 or 1801, he moved to Virginia in 1812 or 1813. In his young adult years he was a painter which exposed him to dangerous chemicals such as lead and barium which is believed by historians to be the reason for his eventually mental problems. In November of 1832 he abruptly moved back to England to study landscape paintings, he later left and lived in Phieldiapa, Pennsylvania and claimed that "unnamed persons" had prevented him from traveling somewhere and that the U.S. Government prevented him from travelling back to London. He later come to believe that he was Richard the 3rd of England and that Andrew Jackson had owed him money for his fictional estates in England.
== assassination and trial ==
On Friday January 30, 1835 Andrew Jackson attended the funeral of Warren R. Davis in South Carolina, while he was walking out Lawrence appeared and pulled out a pistol and aimed it at the president, but luckily his pistol misfired along with his spare pistol resulting in Jackson beating him with his cane. He was later put under trial but was not guilty by reason of insanity and was sent off to St Elizabeth's Hospital where he died in 1861.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lawrence_(failed_assassin)