Ida McKinley dies in June 1901 --> VP T. Roosevelt assassinated in September

Here's a rough scenario I have. Help me figure out what happens next.

1901
March 4: McKinley gives his inauguration speech.
April 29: McKinley and the First Lady set out on a tour of the Nation to, among other things, promote McKinley's trade policy. The plan is to finish with a speech at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York on June 13.
May: Ida McKinley, famously epileptic, falls ill in California. McKinley takes her to San Francisco, where she at first seems to recover but then takes a turn for the worst. McKinley postpones the speech at the Exhibition until September 5 and cancels all further stops until then. On May 6th, anarchist Leon Czolgosz listened to Emma Goldman speak in Cleveland, Ohio. He spoke briefly with her afterwards, asking for reading suggestions, which she gave him.
June: On June 8th, Ida McKinley dies. McKinley accompanies her body back to Canton, Ohio by train where a funeral service for the late First Lady is held on June 13th. The death of the First Lady shatters McKinley; he stays in Canton rather than returning to Washington and directs Vice President Theodore Roosevelt to speak at the Exhibition in his stead.
July: On the 12th of July, as Goldman prepared to depart Chicago for Buffalo, Czolgosz encountered her a second time and spoke about Anarchism as they waited for her train. He then spoke with E.J. Isaak, Sr., editor of the Free Society, an Anarchist periodical. Isaak suspected Czolgolsz was a police spy, a suspicion corroborated by a colleague of his, E. Schilling in Cleveland.
August: Goldman traveled again to Buffalo. Czolgosz followed her, arriving in Buffalo on August 31st.
September: Isaak publishes a piece in the September edition of the Free Society, warning fellow anarchists of Czolgosz, who he characterizes as a spy. On the 5th of September, Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Buffalo and gives a rousing speech at the Pan-American Exposition, where he coins the phrase “Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far.” Czolgolsz, who is in the crowd, is alarmed by Roosevelt's forceful rhetoric. He decides then to assassinate the Vice President, purchasing a revolver that night. The next day, Roosevelt had a reception at the Temple of Music. Czolgosz waited in line to see the Vice President, and when he got his chance he took it, shooting Roosevelt twice, once in the stomach and a second time in the heart. He died instantly. Czolgosz was hung by an enraged mob. A week later Roosevelt's funeral service was held. McKinley spoke, decrying the national tragedy. The two tragedies put McKinley in a very dark place.
 
There are calls for McKinley to resign with honor given the tragedies befallen him and he considers it but decides instead to focus on his presidency to distract him from his personal tragedies instead.

Past that, I'm not so sure.
 
Looking at past VP who died in office, I don't think McKinley will choose a replacement. So hopefully another anarchist's bullet doesn't find him.
 
Looking at past VP who died in office, I don't think McKinley will choose a replacement. So hopefully another anarchist's bullet doesn't find him.

Theres no provision in the constitution for picking a new vp, not until post wwii. So its guaranteed he wont have one.

More exactly, the creation of a new VP was in Amendment xxv, ratified in 1967. I knew it was late, id forgotten it was that late.
 
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Theres no provision in the constitution for picking a new vp, not until post wwii. So its guaranteed he wont have one.

More exactly, the creation of a new VP was in Amendment xxv, ratified in 1967. I knew it was late, id forgotten it was that late.


Though of course he can achieve the same result by appointing a new Secretary of State, if for any reason he considers John Hay unsuitable to succeed him.
 
Indeed he was - but just the ordinary kind, not Secretary of anything.

He was Sec of State under McKinley and in TR's first term.
 
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