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Abraham Lincoln to John Lennon: People Assassinated in the United States  
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Being in the limelight can expose people to danger or death from people with differing ideological or political agendas. These are some of the important people who were assassinated in the United States.

	Joseph Smith, Jr. , (1844), Mormon leader, Presidential candidate
	Hyrum Smith, (1844), Mormon leader, killed along with Joseph
	Henry Heusken, (1861), American diplomat (accompanying Townsend Harris from Amsterdam)
	Abraham Lincoln, (1865), President of the United States
	Thomas Hindman, (1868), Confederate General
	James Hinds, (1868), U.S. Congressman killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan
	Edward Canby, (1873), Union General, leader of a peace conference
	James Garfield, (1881), President of the United States
	David Hennessey, (1890), Police Chief of New Orleans
	Carter Harrison, Sr., (1893), Mayor of Chicago
	William Goebel, (1900), Governor of Kentucky
	William McKinley, (1901), President of the United States
	Frank Steunenberg, (1905), former governor of Idaho
	Don Mellett, (1926), newspaper editor and campaigner against organized crime
	Anton Cermak, (1933), mayor of Chicago
	Huey P. Long, (1935), Louisiana senator and former governor
	Carlo Tresca, (1943), anarchist organizer
	Curtis Chillingworth, (1955), a Florida judge
	John F. Kennedy, (1963), President of the United States
	Lee Harvey Oswald, (1963), alleged assassin of Kennedy
	Medgar Evers, (1963), U.S. civil rights activist
	Malcolm X, (1965), black Muslim leader, killed in a Manhattan banquet room after giving a speech
	George Lincoln Rockwell, (1967), founder of the American Nazi Party
	Martin Luther King Jr., (1968), U.S. civil rights activist
	Robert F. Kennedy, (1968), Presidential candidate and John F. Kennedy's younger brother, shot in Los Angeles
	Fred Hampton, (1969), Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party
	Harold Haley, (1970), Marin County Superior Court Judge taken hostage in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody
	Dan Mitrione, (1970), FBI agent and torture teacher, killed by the guerrilla movement Tupamaros
	Orlando Letelier, (1976), Chilean ambassador to the United States under the administration of Salvador Allende
	Harvey Milk, (1978), gay rights campaigner and city supervisor of San Francisco, California
	George Moscone, (1978), Mayor of San Francisco killed with Milk
	John Wood, (1979), first US federal judge killed in the twentieth century
	John Lennon, (1980), British musician and anti-war icon
	Alan Berg, (1984), radio talk-show host, killed by Neo-nazis
	Chiang Nan, (1984), Taiwanese-American writer, allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents
	Alex Odeh, (1985), Arab anti-discrimination group leader, killed when bomb exploded in his Santa Ana, California office
	Alejandro González Malavé, (1986), famous undercover policeman, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico
	Don Aronow, (1987), inventor of the cigarette boat
	Meir Kahane, (1990), American rabbi, founder of Jewish Defense League, former member of Israel's Knesset, shot in New York City
	Ioan P. Culianu, (1991), professor of divinity
	Tupac Shakur, (1996), American hip-hop musician shot dead in Las Vegas, Nevada
	Tommy Burks, (1998), Tennessee State Senator
	Thomas C. Wales, (2001), Washington federal prosecutor and gun control advocate
	James E. Davis, (2003), New York City Council Member

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