The 1901 State of the Union Address was given by the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. It was presented to both houses of the 57th United States Congress. Excerpt: "The Congress assembles this year under the shadow of a great calamity. On the sixth of September, President McKinley was shot by an anarchist while attending the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and died in that city on the fourteenth of that month…"