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Leon Czolgosz  

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  • On September 6, 1901, at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York, Leon Czolgosz fired two shots at President William McKinley. McKinley died September 14, of gangrene poisoning, the third president in 36 years to be felled by an assassin. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Czolgosz, Leon]

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