| Name |
Year Killed |
Office held when assassinated |
Site of assassination |
How killed |
Name of assassin |
| Bent, Charles |
1847 |
Governor, New Mexico Territory |
Taos, New Mexico |
Arrows and scalping |
Pueblo Indians and New Mexican rebels |
| Burks, Tommy |
1998 |
State Senator from Tennessee |
Cumberland County, Tennessee |
Gunshot to face |
Looper, Byron |
| Cermak, Anton |
1933 |
Mayor of Chicago, Illinois |
Miami, Florida |
Gunshot to lung |
Zangara, Giuseppe |
| Clayton, John M. |
1889 |
Congressman-elect from Arkansas |
Plumerville, Arkansas (at a boardinghouse) |
Gunshots through window |
Unknown assailant |
| Davis, James E. |
2003 |
New York City Councilman |
New York City, New York City Hall |
Gunshots to chest |
Askew, Othniel |
| Garfield, James A. |
1881 |
President of the United States |
Washington, D.C. (at train station) |
Gunshot to spine (death took three months) |
Guiteau, Charles J. |
| Goebel, William |
1900 |
Governor of Kentucky |
Frankfort, Kentucky (outside the Old State Capitol) |
Gunshot to the chest |
Uncertain; political opponents |
| Harrison Sr., Carter |
1893 |
Mayor of Chicago |
Chicago, Illinois (in his home) |
|
Prendergast, Patrick Eugene |
| Hindman, Thomas C. |
1868 |
Congressman (former) from Arkansas |
Helena, Arkansas (at his home) |
Gunshots, hit in jaw and throat by shots through a window |
Unknown assailants |
| Hinds, James. M |
1868 |
Congressman from Arkansas |
|
|
Unknown member of the Ku Klux Klan |
| Holbrook, Edward Dexter |
1870 |
Delegate to United States House of Representatives from Idaho Territory |
Idaho City, Idaho |
Gunshot |
Douglas, Charles H. |
| Kennedy, John F. |
1963 |
President of the United States |
Dallas, Texas (while motorcading) |
Gunshot to head and neck |
Oswald, Lee Harvey, |
| Kennedy, Robert F. |
1968 |
United States Senator from New York |
Los Angeles, California (in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel) |
Gunshot to head |
Sirhan Sirhan, |
| Lincoln, Abraham |
1865 |
President of the United States |
Washington, DC. (Ford's Theatre) |
Gunshot, pistol shot to the back of the skull |
Booth, John Wilkes, |
| Lloyd Sr., Russell G. |
1980 |
Mayor (former) of Evansville, Indiana |
|
Gunshot |
van Orden, Julia |
| Long, Huey |
1935 |
United States Senator from Louisiana, de facto Governor of Louisiana |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana (outside of the State Capitol) |
Gunshots |
Weiss, Carl (disputed) |
| Lowenstein, Allard |
1980 |
Congressman (former) for New York |
New York City, New York (in his Manhattan office) |
Gunshots |
Sweeney, Dennis |
| McKinley, William |
1901 |
President of the United States |
Buffalo, New York (at World's Fair) |
Gunshot to the abdomen |
Czolgosz, Leon Frank |
| McFadden, Louis |
1936 |
Congressman (former) for Pennsylvania |
New York City, New York |
Poisoned |
unknown |
| Milk, Harvey |
1978 |
City Supervisor (San Francisco) |
San Francisco, California (in his City Hall office) |
Gunshots to chest and head |
White, Dan |
| Moscone, George |
1978 |
Mayor of San Francisco |
San Francisco, California (in his City Hall office) |
Gunshots to abdomen and head |
White, Dan |
| Patterson, Albert |
1954 |
Attorney General for Alabama |
Phenix City, Alabama (outside his office) |
Gunshots |
|
| Rockwell, George Lincoln |
1967 |
Fringe candidate for Governor of Virginia |
Arlington, Virginia (outside a laundramat) |
Gunshot to aorta |
Patler, John (disputed) |
| Ryan, Leo |
1978 |
Congressman from California |
Jonestown, Guyana (on airport tarmac) |
Gunshots to body and face |
Layton, Larry of the People's Temple |
| Slough, John P. |
1867 |
Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court |
Santa Fe, New Mexico |
|
Rynerson, William D. |
| Solomon P. Sharp |
1825 |
Attorney General of Kentucky: Kentucky State Senator elect |
Home in Frankfort, Kentucky |
Stabbed in front of his home |
Jereboam Beauchamp |
| Smith Jr., Joseph |
1844 |
Mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois |
Carthage, Illinois (jailhouse) |
Gunshot, shot through window by mob |
Unidentified members of mob |
| Steunenberg, Frank |
1905 |
Governor (former) of Idaho |
Caldwell, Idaho (outside his home) |
Bomb, set at front gate of his home |
Orchard, Harry, possibly others |
| Strang, James |
1856 |
State Representative of Michigan |
Beaver Island, Michigan |
Gunshot |
Bedford, Thomas |
