List of assassinated American politicians (English Wikipedia)

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"Particulars of the Killing of Col. Tison". The Daily Memphis Avalanche. Vol. XXVI, no. 141. Memphis, Tennessee. December 16, 1882. p. 4. Retrieved June 28, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
"John Bolton, Chicago Man, Shot, Killed". Kenosha News. Kenosha, Wisconsin. AP. July 9, 1936. p. 2. Retrieved January 9, 2022 – via newspapers.com.
"After Assassins Did Their Work". Chicago Tribune. July 9, 1936. p. 34. Retrieved January 9, 2022 – via newspapers.com.
Day, James P.; Edsall, Thomas B. (April 3, 1973). "Mandel Approved Suspect Despite Probe: Bauman". The Baltimore Sun. p. 1. Retrieved March 28, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
Talbott, William; Schulian, John (July 13, 1973). "Del. Turk Scott Found Slain In Apartment House Garage". The Baltimore Sun. pp. 1, 2. Retrieved March 28, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
Mondesire, Jerome W.; Price, G. Jefferson (July 14, 1973). "Mystery caller told Sun of slaying of Scott; police report no leads". The Baltimore Sun. p. 1. Retrieved March 28, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
Mondesire, Jerome W. (July 15, 1973). "Scott said to give his killers names of heroin dealers". The Baltimore Sun. p. 1. Retrieved March 28, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
"Shot to Kill: Famous Prohibition Leader is Shot Dead in a Quarrel". The Effingham Democrat. November 7, 1902. p. 1.

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Pappas, Theodore N. (2020). "The Assassination of Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago: A Review of His Postinjury Medical Care". The Surgery Journal. 06 (2): e105 – e111. doi:10.1055/s-0040-1709459. ISSN 2378-5128. PMC 7297642. PMID 32566747.

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Pappas, Theodore N. (2020). "The Assassination of Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago: A Review of His Postinjury Medical Care". The Surgery Journal. 06 (2): e105 – e111. doi:10.1055/s-0040-1709459. ISSN 2378-5128. PMC 7297642. PMID 32566747.

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Krajicek, David J. (April 9, 2016). "Maniac PBA president murders Long Beach mayor: 'Take me to the stationhouse'". New York Daily News.

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Louis, Errol (July 23, 2023). "We Will Never Forget James Davis". Intelligencer. Retrieved March 6, 2025.

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Margolick, David (November 1, 1992). "Lowenstein Killer Moves Toward Freedom". The New York Times. p. 49. Archived from the original on January 16, 2018. Retrieved February 18, 2025.
Markham, James M. (February 26, 2017). "US Ambassador and Aide Kidnapped and Murdered in Beirut Combat Sector". The New York Times (published June 17, 1976).
"LEGISLATOR SLAIN AT CHICAGO HOME; 'Al' Prignano, Leader of the 'Bloody 20th' Ward, Shot in Presence of Family". New York Times. Chicago, Illinois. New York Times. December 30, 1935. p. 1. Retrieved June 20, 2025 – via nytimes.com.

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Buchanan, Tyler (April 8, 2021). "History Thursday: The vindication and downfall of Col. John P. Slough". Ohio Capital Journal. Retrieved February 21, 2025.

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Coleman, Kenneth R. (March 23, 2023). "Cockstock Incident". Encyclopedia of Oregon.

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"Politics Ran Wild After Civil War". Orlando Sentinel. March 21, 1999.
"Shotgun Blasted GOP From Power". Orlando Sentinel. March 5, 1995.

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"American Presidential Assassinations". PBS. Retrieved May 15, 2024.

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Glass, Andrew (November 26, 2012). "José Francisco Chaves was shot to death, Nov. 26, 1904". POLITICO. Retrieved February 18, 2025.

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Hine, William C. (June 20, 2016). "Randolph, Benjamin Franklin". South Carolina Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 24, 2025.

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Simmons, Thomas E. (2001). "Territorial Justice under Fire: The Trials of Peter Wintermute, 1873-1875" (PDF). South Dakota History. 31 (2). South Dakota State Historical Society: 91–112.

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Wizevich, Eli. "Harvey Milk, One of the World's First Openly Gay Politicians, Was Assassinated on This Day in 1978". Smithsonian Magazine.
Wizevich, Eli. "Harvey Milk, One of the World's First Openly Gay Politicians, Was Assassinated on This Day in 1978". Smithsonian Magazine.

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Leonard, Mary Delach (February 7, 2018). "Kirkwood is still healing, 10 years after the City Hall shootings". STLPR.

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Koerner, Brendan I. (April 15, 2021). "A Kidnapping Gone Very Wrong". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on April 16, 2021. Retrieved February 18, 2025.

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"Cleo A. Noel, Jr., Sudan, 1973". Time. September 12, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
"Cleo A. Noel, Jr., Sudan, 1973". Time. September 12, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2025.

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Murphy, Kevin (September 6, 2008). "Former Kirkwood Mayor Mike Swoboda Dies". WKTimes LLC.

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Hsu, Spencer S.; Marimow, Ann E. (October 3, 2017). "Screams, explosions and fire in Benghazi: Bodyguard details ambassador's last moments". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2025.
Miller, Michael E. (December 16, 2018). "The shadow of an assassinated American Nazi commander hangs over Charlottesville". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 17, 2018. Retrieved August 21, 2017.

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Margolick, David (November 1, 1992). "Lowenstein Killer Moves Toward Freedom". The New York Times. p. 49. Archived from the original on January 16, 2018. Retrieved February 18, 2025.
Koerner, Brendan I. (April 15, 2021). "A Kidnapping Gone Very Wrong". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on April 16, 2021. Retrieved February 18, 2025.
Hsu, Spencer S.; Marimow, Ann E. (October 3, 2017). "Screams, explosions and fire in Benghazi: Bodyguard details ambassador's last moments". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2025.
"CARDIS, LOUIS | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
Grady, Alan (July 24, 2007). "Albert L. Patterson". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Archived from the original on November 12, 2014.
"'70s slaying of KC politician a mob hit? - KansasCity.com". Archived from the original on November 2, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Russell, Suzanne (June 6, 2025). "Trial of Sayreville councilwoman's accused killer goes to jury". My Central Jersey. Archived from the original on June 19, 2025. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
Miller, Michael E. (December 16, 2018). "The shadow of an assassinated American Nazi commander hangs over Charlottesville". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 17, 2018. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
"2 Get Life in Murder-for-Hire Slaying of Sheriff-Elect". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. November 22, 2005. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved August 4, 2018.

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Barnes, Kenneth C. (1993). "Who Killed John M. Clayton? Political Violence in Conway County, Arkansas, in the 1880s". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 52 (4): 371–404. doi:10.2307/40038215. ISSN 0004-1823. JSTOR 40038215.
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Brunhouse, Robert L. (1965). "David Ramsay, 1749-1815 Selections from His Writings". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 55 (4). doi:10.2307/1005920. ISSN 0065-9746. JSTOR 1005920.
Quaife, M. M. (1922). "Wisconsin's Saddest Tragedy". The Wisconsin Magazine of History. 5 (3). Wisconsin Historical Society: 264–283. ISSN 0043-6534. JSTOR 4630366.
Morton, Richard Allen (2003). "A Victorian Tragedy: The Strange Deaths of Mayor Carter H. Harrison and Patrick Eugene Prendergast". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 96 (1): 6–36. ISSN 1522-1067. JSTOR 40193609.
Pappas, Theodore N. (2020). "The Assassination of Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago: A Review of His Postinjury Medical Care". The Surgery Journal. 06 (2): e105 – e111. doi:10.1055/s-0040-1709459. ISSN 2378-5128. PMC 7297642. PMID 32566747.
Daniell, Elizabeth Otto (1975). "The Ashburn Murder Case In Georgia Reconstruction, 1868". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 59 (3): 296–312. ISSN 0016-8297.

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Staff, WYMT News (December 13, 2018). "Mastermind behind Pulaski County Sheriff's murder dies". www.wymt.com.

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Roth, Zachary (January 19, 2010). "Police: Slain judge 'was thinking of his fellow human more than himself'". Blog: The Lookout. Yahoo! Inc. Retrieved January 22, 2011.