Leon Czolgosz
American laborer and assassin (1873-1901) · United States · Historical Figures · Died at 28
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Something wrong?He shot President William McKinley at close range in Buffalo and was dead himself 53 days later. The name survives as the wire-factory worker who believed murder was anarchist duty.
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Leon Czolgosz ca 1900
Assassination of U.S. President William McKinley by Achille Beltrame; 1901
Autopsy drawings of brain of Leon Czolgosz
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First photograph of Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, in jail
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Leon Czolgosz (mug shot)About this person
Leon Frank Czolgosz was born May 5, 1873, and worked in wire manufacturing until the economic Panic of 1893 cost him his job. He turned to anarchism in the years that followed, coming to see McKinley as a symbol of oppression. On September 6, 1901, he shot the president in Buffalo, New York, and was arrested on the spot. McKinley's wound became infected and he died eight days later, on September 14. Czolgosz was convicted of first degree murder within a month and executed by electric chair on October 29, 1901.
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