Giuseppe Zangara was the assassin of Chicago mayor

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 Anton Cermak

Anton Cermak

Anton Joseph Cermak was the mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1931 until his assassination by Giuseppe Zangara in 1933.-Early life and career:...

, though United States President

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–elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt may have been his intended target. Roosevelt escaped injury, but five people were shot including Cermak.
Zangara was born in Ferruzzano

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, Calabria

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, Italy

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. After serving in the Tyrol

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ian Alps in World War I

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, Zangara did a variety of menial jobs in his home village before emigrating with his uncle to the United States

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 in 1923. He settled in Paterson, New Jersey

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 and on September 11, 1929, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Zangara, a poorly educated bricklayer

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, suffered severe pain in his abdomen

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, later attributed to adhesions of the gall bladder, possibly originating from an appendectomy performed in 1926.