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Leon Czolgosz

1873 - 1901

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Leon Frank Czolgosz ( CHOL-gosh; Polish: [ˈlɛɔn ˈt͡ʂɔwɡɔʂ]; May 5, 1873 – October 29, 1901) was an American wireworker and anarchist who assassinated United States president William McKinley on September 6, 1901, in Buffalo, New York. McKinley died on September 14 after his wound became infected. Caught in the act, Czolgosz was tried, convicted, and executed by the State of New York seven weeks later on October 29, 1901. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leon Czolgosz is the 16th most popular extremist (up from 141st in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,119th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Leon Czolgosz ranks 16 out of 283. Before him are Herostratus, Amon Göth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Frederick Trump, Man in the Iron Mask, and Gilles de Rais. After him are Golden State Killer, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ramón Mercader, Patrizia Reggiani, and Andrei Chikatilo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Leon Czolgosz ranks 7. Before him are Sergei Rachmaninoff, Thérèse of Lisieux, Thomas Andrews, Enrico Caruso, Johannes V. Jensen, and Lee de Forest. After him are Konstantin von Neurath, Colette, Jules Rimet, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Alexis Carrel, and Henri Barbusse. Among people deceased in 1901, Leon Czolgosz ranks 7. Before him are William McKinley, Giuseppe Verdi, Queen Victoria, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Victoria, Princess Royal, and Johanna Spyri. After him are Benjamin Harrison, Arnold Böcklin, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, George Francis FitzGerald, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, and Li Hongzhang.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leon Czolgosz ranks 305 out of 20,380. Before him are Estée Lauder (1906), George Shultz (1920), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Jerry Brown (1938), Calvin Coolidge (1872), and Neilia Hunter Biden (1942). After him are Wild Bill Hickok (1837), Steve Ballmer (1956), Samuel P. Huntington (1927), William Jennings Bryan (1860), Orson Welles (1915), and Tommy Lee Jones (1946).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Leon Czolgosz ranks 6. Before him are John Wilkes Booth (1838), Charles Manson (1934), Zodiac Killer (1940), Ted Bundy (1946), and Lee Harvey Oswald (1939). After him are Golden State Killer (1945), Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), Ted Kaczynski (1942), John Wayne Gacy (1942), Ed Gein (1906), and Albert Fish (1870).

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