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Famous U.S. Assassinations
Notable Famous Deaths There have been multiple assassinations in the USA - attempts and plots to assassinate notable US citizens. Following is not only the presidential assassination list, but also includes all prominent US assassinations that made breaking news. All these people were famous US residents, assassinated brutally, many publicly. Usually in case of an assassination there is a clear motive – jealousy, political or religious idealism, contract killing, revenge etc. Many of these assassinations in United States have remained unsolved mystery as no one was convicted for these conspiracy killings. Feel free to sort this US assassinations list by victim name, birth year and birth place.
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1805“ Mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois and presidential candidate and LDS church leader. „ - 2
1799“ Governor of the New Mexico Territory „ - 3
1813“ Michigan State Representative and leader of the Strangite Mormon Church. „ - 4
1809“ President of the United States „ - 5
John P. Slough
1829“ Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court „ - 6
1828“ Confederate General „ - 7
James M. Hinds
1833“ U.S. Congressman killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan „ - 8
Edward Dexter Holbrook
1836“ Congressional Delegate from the Idaho Territory „ - 9 1831“ President of the United States „
- 10 1796“ Congressman from Arkansas „
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David Hennessey
1858“ Police Chief of New Orleans „ - 12
Carter Harrison, Sr.
1825“ Mayor of Chicago „ - 13 1856“ Governor of Kentucky „
- 14 1843“ President of the United States „
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Frank Steunenberg
1861“ Former governor of Idaho „ - 16 1891“ Newspaper editor and campaigner against organized crime „
- 17 1873“ Mayor of Chicago „
- 18 1893“ Louisiana senator and former governor „
- 19 1886“ Minnesota newspaper editor „
- 20 1879“ Anarchist organizer „
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Albert Patterson
1894“ Alabama Attorney General „ - 22 1896“ A Florida judge „
- 23 1925“ U.S. civil rights activist „
- 24 1917“ President of the United States „
- 25 1925“ Black Muslim leader, killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech „
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