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
Leon Czolgosz shoots President McKinley with a revolver concealed under a rag
Leon Czolgosz, McKinley's assassin
William McKinley (to the left of center, with white shirtfront) delivers his final speech.
The "last posed photograph" of President McKinley, taken in the Government Building on September 5, 1901, the day before his assassination. Left to right: Mrs. John Miller Horton, Chairwoman of the Entertainment Committee of the Woman's Board of Managers; John G. Milburn; Manuel de Azpíroz, the Mexican Ambassador; the president; George B. Cortelyou, the president's secretary; Col. John H. Bingham of the Government Board.
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Marcus Alonzo Hanna was an American businessman and Republican politician who served as a United States Senator from Ohio as well as chairman of the Republican National Committee. A friend and politic
Portrait, 1896
Hanna's birthplace
Hanna as a boy
Before McKinley, Hanna tried to make John Sherman president.