Liberal Party-a political party in Australia, Canada, and other nations, and formerly in Great Britain. Liberty Party-a former political party in the United States; formed in 1839 to oppose the practice of slavery; merged with the Free Soil Party in 1848.
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated. He was shot behind his left ear by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Sixteen years later, on September 19, 1881, President James A. Garfield was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau.
The Progressive Presidents. Theodore Roosevelt: Masculine Progressivism. On September 6, 1901, during a visit to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New. York, President William McKinley was shot twice at point blank range by an anarchist. named Leon Czolgosz. Initial reports in the succeeding days suggested the presidentÊ¼s.