Gee, Karsten, it's been so long since I had to crack a history book....
William McKinley was shot in September 14, 1901, during the first year of his second four-year term as president. The assassin, who shot McKinley at an exposition in Buffalo, New York, was a young drifter named Leon F. Czolgosz, who proclaimed himself an anarchist and said he had an urge to kill a "great leader." He was electrocuted.
Theodore Roosevelt, the 42-year-old Vice President, became President when McKinley died. Teddy Roosevelt was elected President for a second term in 1904. With Roosevelt's support, William Howard Taft was elected President in 1908. Roosevelt and Taft later disagreed, and Roosevelt broke from the Republicans and ran for President as the Progressive Party ("Bull Moose Party") nominee in 1912. The Democrats nominated Woodrow Wilson, a professor of political economy who had served as president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey. Roosevelt got more votes than Taft, but Wilson won the election.
In 1932, Theodore's cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was elected President. FDR served from 1933 until his death in 1945.
There you have it.
-Joe Offer-