Assassinated United States President William McKinley on September 6,
1901
Son of Polish immigrants
Suffered a nervous breakdown in August of 1898
His family moved from Detroit, Michigan, to a small farm near
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1881.
Was inspired to shoot President McKinley by Gaetano Bresci who assassinated King Umberto I of Italy. He refused to speak to either of his lawyers during his trial.