On This Day… September 6, 1901

President William McKinley was shot at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York by 28-year-old anarchist Leon Czolgosz. President McKliney died eight days later and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as president.​

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