Don't tell me there were hairbrained women in charge for all of these?
1. Andrew Jackson: The first recorded attempt was on January 30, 1835, when Richard Lawrence attempted to shoot Jackson but failed when both of his pistols misfired.
2. Abraham Lincoln: Successfully assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.
3. James A. Garfield: Successfully assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881.
4. William McKinley: Successfully assassinated by Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901.
5. Theodore Roosevelt: Former President Theodore Roosevelt was shot by John Flammang Schrank on October 14, 1912, but survived because the bullet was slowed by a glasses case and a speech manuscript in his pocket.
6. Franklin D. Roosevelt: An attempt was made on February 15, 1933, by Giuseppe Zangara, who fired several shots but missed Roosevelt, though he did kill Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.
7. Harry S. Truman: Two Puerto Rican nationalists, Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo, attempted to kill Truman on November 1, 1950. Truman was unharmed.
8. John F. Kennedy: Successfully assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963.
9. Richard Nixon: Samuel Byck attempted to hijack a plane on February 22, 1974, with plans to crash it into the White House. The attempt failed.
10. Gerald Ford: There were two attempts on Ford’s life in 1975. The first was by Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme on September 5, and the second by Sara Jane Moore on September 22. Ford was unharmed in both attempts.
11. Jimmy Carter: Raymond Lee Harvey, along with others, planned to assassinate Carter on May 5, 1979, but the attempt was thwarted.
12. Ronald Reagan: An attempt was made by John Hinckley Jr. on March 30, 1981. Reagan was shot but survived.
13. George H. W. Bush: An attempt was made in 1993 by Iraqi intelligence officers, who plotted to assassinate Bush with a car bomb during his visit to Kuwait. The plot was foiled.
14. Bill Clinton: Frank Eugene Corder crashed a Cessna into the White House grounds on September 12, 1994, in an apparent attempt to hit the White House itself. Clinton was not harmed. Additionally, Francisco Martin Duran fired shots at the White House on October 29, 1994.
15. George W. Bush: On February 7, 2001, Robert Pickett fired shots at the White House from outside the fence, and in 2005, Vladimir Arutyunian threw a grenade at Bush during a visit to Tbilisi, Georgia, but it did not explode.
16. Barack Obama: There were several plots and attempts, including one by Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, who fired shots at the White House on November 11, 2011. Obama was not harmed.
These are the major recorded assassination attempts, though there may have been other lesser-known or unpublicized attempts.