Leon Czolgosz

Americans1800s1900s
Written By Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

  • Anarchist

  • Traveled to Buffalo, NY where he knew President William McKinley was for the Pan-American Exposition

  • Or possibly he’d moved to Buffalo? (There’s conflicting info out there…)

  • Hid a gun under a handkerchief and shot the president twice

  • McKinley ask that no one hurt his shooter

  • McKinley died eight days later

  • Theodore Roosevelt, who had been “kicked upstairs” to the vice presidency to keep him out of trouble, became our youngest president (still is, to this day) at 42 years old

  • He confessed “I killed President McKinley because I done my duty. I didn’t believe one man should have so much service, and another man should have none.”

  • Czolgosz was found guilty and executed by electrocution

  • His last words were perhaps “I killed the president because he was the enemy of the good people—the working people.”

Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

Heather isn’t a historian, an academic, or an impartial storyteller… but she has read more than one book about every U.S. president. Out of spite. She was dubbed America’s Preeminent Presidential Doodler by one of her favorite authors and she’s been repeating it ever since. When she’s not reading or doodling history books, she’s a freelance graphic designer and illustrator.

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