TIM MAGUIRE                     

On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shaking
hands at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York,
when a 28-year-old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz approached
him and fired two shots into his chest.

Leon F. Czolgosz
(May 5, 1873 – October 29, 1901)

In 1789, the First U.S. Congress established the Department of
the Treasury on September 2nd to manage government finances, creating a permanent institution after the Continental Congress‘s
prior efforts to fund the Revolutionary War through the issuance
of paper money.

This new department was part of Alexander Hamilton’s vision for
the new government, which included establishing national credit,
funding the national debt, and formulating economic policy.

Alexander Hamilton (1757 – 1804)

View of the east entrance of the first Treasury
Building in Washington, 1804.

In a national response, President Donald Trump
ordered all U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff
until Aug. 31, 2025, in memory of the victims
of Wednesday’s shooting at the Minneapolis
church.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was diagnosed with polio at age
39 in 1921 after falling ill while vacationing at Campobello Island,
Canada.

The illness resulted in permanent paralysis from the waist down,
though some medical experts now suggest his symptoms were
more consistent with Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Despite the crippling effects of the disease, Roosevelt used his
experience to create the Warm Springs Foundation to help 
others with polio.      

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s wheelchair on display at the New
York State Capitol in Albany, N.Y. (2016). Roosevelt used
this wheelchair at the Executive Mansion during his term
as governor from 1928 to 1932.