McKinley Dies: America's Third Assassinated President
An assassin's bullet ends William McKinley's presidency just six days after the attack, thrusting the young Theodore Roosevelt into the White House at age forty-two. This sudden transfer of power instantly shifts the nation's trajectory from McKinley's cautious industrial diplomacy to Roosevelt's aggressive "Square Deal" and assertive foreign policy.
September 13, 1901
125 years ago
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What Else Happened on September 13
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