| Name |
Year Killed |
Office held when assassinated |
Site of assassination |
How killed |
Name of assassin |
| Bent, Charles |
1847 |
Governor of New Mexico Territory |
Taos, New Mexico |
Arrows and scalping |
Pueblo Indians and New Mexican rebels |
| Brown, Derwin |
2000 |
Sheriff-elect of DeKalb County, Georgia |
Dekalb County, Georgia |
gunshots |
Patrick Cuffy, on orders by Sidney Dorsey, the incumbent sheriff of DeKalb County |
| Burks, Tommy |
1998 |
Tennessee State Senator |
Cumberland County, Tennessee |
gunshot to face |
Looper, Byron |
| Cermak, Anton |
1933 |
Mayor of Chicago |
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 railway 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 |
| Gwatney, Bill |
2008 |
Chairman of Arkansas Democratic Party |
Democratic Party Headquarters, Little Rock |
gunshots |
Johnson, Tim |
| Harrison Sr., Carter |
1893 |
Mayor of Chicago |
Chicago, Illinois (in his home) |
gunshot |
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 |
|
Gunshot |
Ku Klux Klan member George A. Clark |
| Holbrook, Edward Dexter |
1870 |
Delegate (former) to the 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) |
gunshots to the neck/throat and head |
Oswald, Lee Harvey |
| Kennedy, Robert F. |
1968 |
United States Senator and leading presidential candidate from New York |
Los Angeles, California (in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel) |
gunshot to head |
Sirhan Sirhan |
| King, Ed |
1986 |
Mayor of Mount Pleasant, Iowa |
Mount Pleasant, Iowa at a city council meeting[1] |
gunshot |
Davis, Ralph |
| 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 |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana (inside the State Capitol) |
gunshots |
Weiss, Carl (disputed) |
| Lowenstein, Allard |
1980 |
Congressman (former) from 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 |
| Milk, Harvey |
1978 |
San Francisco City Supervisor |
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 |
Alabama Attorney General-elect |
Phenix City, Alabama (outside his office) |
gunshots |
|
| Rockwell, George Lincoln |
1967 |
Fringe candidate for Governor of Virginia and founder of the American Nazi Party |
Arlington, Virginia (outside a laundromat) |
gunshot to aorta |
Patler, John |
| Ryan, Leo |
1978 |
Congressman from California |
Jonestown, Guyana (on airport tarmac) |
gunshots to body and face |
Members of the People's Temple |
| Slough, John P. |
1867 |
Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court |
Santa Fe, New Mexico |
gunshot |
Rynerson, William D. |
| Sharp, Solomon P. |
1825 |
Kentucky Attorney General, Kentucky State Senator-elect |
Home in Frankfort, Kentucky |
Stabbed in front of his home |
Beauchamp, Jereboam O. |
| Smith Jr., Joseph |
1844 |
Mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois, candidate for President of the United States |
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 |
Michigan State Representative |
Beaver Island, Michigan |
gunshot |
Bedford, Thomas |
| Vance, Robert Smith |
1989 |
U. S. federal judge |
Birmingham, Alabama |
Letter bomb, exploded in kitchen |
Moody, Walter Leroy |
| Wood, Jr., John H. |
1979 |
U.S. federal judge |
San Antonio, Texas (outside his home) |
gunshot |
Charles Harrelson |
