Submitted by archfapper t3_126s0go in todayilearned
TIL William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. As a politician he led a realignment that made his Republican Party largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide until the 1930s. Also, his vice-president was Teddy Roosevelt.
McKinley's was the third Presidential assassination in 36 years (Lincoln in 1865 and Garfield in 1881)
Jesus, as a non-American I thought that the only assassinated American presidents were Lincoln and Kennedy.
I wonder why McKinley and Garfield are not that famous.
Garfield's is understandable because he was only in office a few months when he was shot. But his assassination was a really interesting story. McKinley was well-liked but is a slightly obscure president
Garfield wasn’t very notable otherwise. He also took 2 months to die and likely would have survived if his doctor had better hygienic standards.
We've had a lot of presidents, and as you probably noticed, some of them were pretty dismal.
God I could really go for a dismal boring president right about now.
We have that now.
We went from worst president in history to boring Biden.
It is so nice to have boring again.
I think Bush Jr is a great example.
Tbh I thought Bush senior was pretty boring of a president. Apart from the whole Gulf War thing.
True.
Almost 10% of American presidents have been assassinated (4/46).
4 out of 45. While there have been 46 administrations, there have been 45 men who’ve been President, as Grover Cleveland served as both the 22nd and 24th.
That’s not the most interesting thing that happened to a president. One of them got stuck in the bathtub because he was so fat and they somehow got him out and had to buy a bigger tub and replace the tub he got stuck in.
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Yup, and all three are covered at length in Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation, though Lincoln's understandably gets the lion's share of her attention.
Oh, how the times are changing….
He was also fully bought and paid for by the Robber Barrons.
Leon Czolgosz shot the President but really it was the doctors who killed him, with their comical incompetence - McKinley was shot in the stomach and was appearing to recover, before an infection (probably caused by the botched operation) finished him off.
Ditto for James Garfield. He really died of gangrene and slowly starving all summer
Oddly enough, Hay's Secretary of State - John Hay - had also been Garfield's Assistant Secretary of State and close acquaintance. And also a much younger man, Hay was also a secretary to Lincoln, and surrogate son, and present at his deathbed.
Probably the only man to have been present at the deaths of three US presidents
Robert todd Lincoln stopped attending presidential events at this time too
Chole-ghos
Just in case anyone was interested.
Probably more like chole-goh-sh, at least at home. Sz makes a "sh" sound in Polish.
Born in the middle of mish I gannn
Woke with a thought and away he ran
To the Pan-American exhibition in Buffalooooo
is is the shit I would expect in North Korea
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Seems much better than letting mass shooters publishing their manifestos and receiving fanmail.
I’m surprised that some people are surprised that fuckers like that get fan mail. These people get really famous and there’s a lot of sickos out there and who do sickos like ? Other sickos. Of course out of hundreds of millions of people who heard about them on the news there’s gonna be a few sickos sending them fan mail.
Sounds like a cover up of then having tortured him
He did nothing wrong. McKinley deserved a million times what he got for his action in the Philippines.
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InflamedLiver t1_jeahssn wrote
I guess he knew people would later put that stuff in a museum to gawk at and he wasn't having it.