Anton Cermak
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Anton Joseph Cermak was an American politician who served as the 44th Mayor of Chicago from 1931 until he was fatally wounded in 1933 by Giuseppe Zangara, who was trying to assassinate President-elect
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1931–1933
Antonín Čermák birth record 1873
Monument to Anton Cermak in his birth town of Kladno.
Anton Cermak's tomb at Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago.
Giuseppe Zangara
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Giuseppe Zangara was an Italian-born American man who attempted to assassinate the President-elect of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on February 15, 1933, 17 days before Roosevelt's inaugur
Anton Cermak
…May 9, 1873 – March 6, 1933) was an American politician who served as the 44th Mayor of Chicago from 1931 until he was fatally wounded in 1933 by Giuseppe Zangara, who was trying to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. A 1994 survey of experts on Chicago politics assessed Cermak as one of the ten…
Zangara in 1933