19
Nov
2018
Richard Lawrence attempted to assassinate Andrew Jackson because he believed killing him would allow Martin Van Buren to establish a central bank, enabling Lawrence to collect money owed on his English estates.
For reasons that aren't entirely clear, he also came to believe that Andrew Jackson's vetoing of the Second Bank of the United States made it impossible for him to collect monies he was owed on the estates. He reasoned that if he killed Jackson, Martin Van Buren would become president, he'd set up a central bank, and just like that... He gets all of his English estate money.