American presidential politics has been punctuated by violence from its early days, from the infamous duel between then-Vice President Aaron Burr and former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton to the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy, and attempts on a number of other presidents.
Former President Donald Trump now joins that list after suffering an injury when shots rang out at his campaign rally Saturday in Pennsylvania.Authorities said the shooter is dead, as well as one other person who was attending the rally. Several others were critically wounded.
Theodore Roosevelt, who served as a Republican, was running in 1912 as the Progressive Party candidate, battling incumbent Republican President Howard Taft and Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson. Roosevelt, hit in the chest, would go on to deliver an hourlong speech, declaring “It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
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