Giuseppe Zangara

Giuseppe Zangara (September 7, 1900 – March 20, 1933) was an Italian-born American man who attempted to assassinate the President-elect of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on February 15, 1933, 17 days before Roosevelt's inauguration. During a night speech by Roosevelt in Miami, Florida, Zangara fired five shots with a handgun he had purchased a few days before. He missed his target and instead killed Anton Cermak, the mayor of Chicago, and injured four bystanders.

Zangara, who pled guilty and refused to appeal, was executed in Florida's electric chair slightly over a month later.