William McKinley

Order:25th President Term of Office:March_4, 1897 - September_14, 1901 Followed:Grover_Cleveland Succeeded by:Theodore_Roosevelt Date of BirthJanuary_29, 1843 Place of Birth:Niles,_Ohio Date of Death:September_14, 1901 Place of Death:Buffalo,_New_York ''' Occupation:lawyer ''' Vice President:

Garret_A._Hobart (1897-1899)

Theodore_Roosevelt (1901) William McKinley (January_29, 1843 - September_14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United_States, from 1897 until his assassination in 1901.

Biography

McKinley was born in Niles,_Ohio, January_29, 1843 to William McKinley and Nancy Allison. He attended the public schools, Poland Academy, and Allegheny_College. Following graduation he taught school, then at the start of the American_Civil_War enlisted in the Union Army on June_23, 1861, as a private in the Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out as Captain and brevet Major of the same regiment in September 1865. Following the war, McKinley studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He commenced practice in Canton,_Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney of Stark_County,_Ohio, 1869-1871, and was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March_4, 1877-March_3, 1883). He was chairman of the Committee on Revision of the Laws (Forty-seventh Congress). He presented his credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-eighth Congress and served from March_4, 1883, until May_27, 1884, when he was succeeded by Jonathan H. Wallace, who successfully contested his election. McKinley was again elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March_4, 1885-March_3, 1891). He was chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means (Fifty-first Congress). McKinley was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1884, 1888, and 1892. Standing for election with his running mate Andrew_L._Harris, McKinley was elected Governor of Ohio in 1891, and reelected in 1893, serving until January_13, 1896. He was elected President of the United States in 1896. In 1898, McKinley launched the trust-busting era when he appointed several Senators (and his former Lt. Governor Andrew_L._Harris) to the U.S. Industrial_Commission. Later, the Industrial_Commission's report to Theodore Roosevelt would lay the groundwork for Roosevelt's attacks on trusts and 'malefactors of great wealth'. McKinley led the country into the Spanish-American_War, bringing the former colonies of Spain in the Philippines and Caribbean_Sea under American control. Despite some vocal domestic opposition, his administration ushered the U.S. into the "New_Imperialism" of the era. He was re-elected in 1900. McKinley was shot by an anarchist, Leon F. Czolgosz, on September_6, 1901 while attending the Pan_American_Exposition in Buffalo,_New_York, and died from his wounds there on September_14, 1901. He is one of the four U.S. presidents that have been assassinated. Interment is in the McKinley Monument (adjacent to West Lawn Cemetery), Canton,_Ohio. Governor Andrew_L._Harris and other speakers saluted the fallen President at the McKinley Memorial. McKinley's portrait appeared on the U.S. $500 bill from 1928 to 1946.

Supreme Court appointments

Significant events during presidency

Dingley_Tariff (1897)

Maximum_Freight_Case (1897)

Gold_Standard_Act (1900)

U.S._presidential_election,_1896

U.S._presidential_election,_1900

History of the United States (1865-1918)

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