On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Leon Czolgosz, a Polish citizen associated with the Anarchist movement, fired two shots at McKinley who was greeting the public in a receiving line.
McKinley died September 14, whispering the words of his favorite hymn, “Nearer my God to Thee, Nearer to Thee.” He was succeeded by his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt.
— Source Library of Congress.
Czolgosz was executed in the electric chair on October 29, 1901.
See The New York Times articles from the day of the shooting.
Title for this post from headline in The San Francisco Call.