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William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, six months into his second term. He was shaking hands with the public when an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, shot him twice in the abdomen.
On September 6, 1901, William McKinley became the third U.S. president to be assassinated after he was fatally shot at the Pan‑American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
William McKinley served in the U.S. Congress, as governor of Ohio and as 25th U.S. president during the Spanish-American War before his assassination in 1901.
William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades.
William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States (1897–1901). Under his leadership, the country went to war against Spain in 1898 and thereby acquired a global empire, which included Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. McKinley was assassinated in 1901.
President William McKinley (1843-1901) dies on September 14, 1901 of complications from bullet wounds inflicted by Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot the President during one of his public appearances at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
Leon F. Czolgosz, age twenty-eight, a Detroit resident of Polish heritage and an unemployed mill worker of anarchist sentiments, had fired a concealed .32 Iver Johnson revolver point blank into the President's chest. McKinley doubled over and fell backward into the arms of his Secret Service escorts.
At the time, President William McKinley was the third sitting president to be assassinated after Presidents Abraham Lincoln and James A. Garfield. The country had had enough and the Secret Service, who were previously just a branch of the Treasury Department, were then assigned as the formal protectors of the President.
On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley is shaking hands at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York, when a 28-year-old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz approaches him and...
On Sept. 6, 1901, Leon Czolgosz stepped from a crowd at the World’s Fair in Buffalo and, using a revolver hidden under his handkerchief, fired two shots at President William McKinley, who...