McKinley’s Assassination
On September 6th, 1901, anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot President William McKinley twice in the abdomen. The performance took place at Buffalo’s Temple of Music. Ironically, the president’s secretary was able to persuade him not to go on the trip on two separate occasions because he was concerned about this specific event. McKinley died eight days after the assassination.
McKinley’s Assassination
Grover Cleveland – 144
Grover Cleveland, who had an IQ of 144, was on the verge of joining the top 50% of presidents. Grover Cleveland was president for two terms, the first of which lasted from 1885 to 1889. However, he did not serve consecutive terms because he lost his first reelection bid in 1892 but won it again in 1893. Conservatives praised his fiscal policy and desire for political reform. During Cleveland’s second term, he dealt with the Panic of 1893, which turned into a major economic crisis, as well as the Pullman Strike of 1894, a nationwide railroad strike. As his forefathers arrived in Massachusetts, he was a descendant of one of the first families to move from Europe to the new world. His biographer praised Cleveland and his public speaking skills: “He possessed honesty, courage, firmness, independence, and common sense. But he possessed them to a degree other men do not”. Despite his less popular second term, some consider Cleveland to be one of the best presidents the country ever had.
Grover Cleveland