Who was the only Philadelphia mayor to experience an assassination attempt?
On May 3, 1843, Mayor John M. Scott was in his office when Adalberte Benedictis Ptolemeis, a homeless man, entered and demanded the mayor give him a job as an Italian and geometry teacher. When the request was denied Ptolemeis shot Scott in the back. Scott only suffered a bruise as the bullet was stopped by the webbing of his silk suspenders. Source: Finkel, Kenneth. Philadelphia Almanac and Citizen’s Manual. Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1995. p. 137.
