Who is the only U.S. president known to have killed a man in a duel?

March 2, 2012 by Pamela Landy · Filed Under: American History

Andrew Jackson (served 1829-37), who shot and killed Nashville lawyer Charles Dickinson in 1806, is the only U.S. president known to have killed a man in a duel.

The duel resulted from Dickinson’s impugning of the honor of Jackson’s wife, Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson.

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