The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
by Steve Oney
appears in American History, Mystery & Crime, and History.
In 1913, 13yearold Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a collegeeducated Jew named Leo Frank, was arrested, tried, and convicted in a trial that seized national headlines. When the governor commuted his death sentence, Frank was kidnapped and lynched by a gr...
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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