Editing Thomas R. Marshall (section)

===Assassination attempt===
On the evening of July 2, 1915, [[Eric Muenter]], a one time German professor at [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and [[Cornell University|Cornell]] universities, who opposed American support of the Allied war effort, broke into the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] and, finding the door to the Senate chamber locked, laid dynamite outside the reception room, which happened to be next to Marshall's office door. Although the bomb was set with a timer, it exploded prematurely just before midnight, while no one was in the office.<ref name = "b202" /> 

On July 3, Muenter (who went under the pseudonym Frank Holt) burst into the [[Glen Cove, New York]] home of [[J. P. Morgan Jr.|Jack Morgan]], son of financier [[J. P. Morgan]], demanding that he stop the sale of weapons to the Allies.  Morgan told the man he was in no position to comply with his demand; Muenter shot him twice non-fatally and escaped.<ref name = "b202">Bennett 2007, p. 202.</ref><ref name=nndb>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/934/000171421/ |title=J. P. Morgan Jr. |website=[[NNDB]] |access-date=April 27, 2015}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=NNDB is considered an unreliable source (WP:RSP).|date=June 2022}} Muenter was later apprehended and confessed to attempted assassination of the vice president.<ref>Bennett 2007, p. 203.</ref> Marshall was offered a personal security detachment after the incident, but declined it.<ref name="Bennett 2007, p. 204">Bennett 2007, p. 204.</ref> Marshall had been receiving written death threats from numerous "cranks" for several weeks.  "Some of them were signed," Marshall told the press, "but most were anonymous.  I threw them all into the waste basket."  Marshall added that he was "more or less a fatalist" and did not notify the Secret Service about the letters, "but that he naturally was startled when he heard of the explosion at the Capitol."<ref>''Indianapolis Star'', July 5, 1915, p. 1.</ref> This incident marks the first assassination attempt on a U.S vice president in American history.