Today in History

September 14, 1901

President William McKinley Dies

On this day in 1901, President William McKinley, Jr. died, eight days after being shot by an assassin at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley was the 25th President of the United States, and the last veteran of the American Civil War elected to the office of the Presidency.

Leon Frank Czolgosz, the assassin,was found guilty of murder. He was executed by electrocution on October 29, 1901.

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