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William McKinley (1843-1901)

25th President of the USA

William McKinley was the President of the United States of America from 1897-1901. He led his country into the twentieth century, overcoming war and economic crisis, before his assassination on 14 September 1901.

His great, great, grandfather, James McKinley, emigrated from the townland of Conagher, near Dervock, in 1743. He settled in Niles, Ohio, where William McKinley was born on 29 January 1843. In 1877, McKinley began his political career in Washington as a Republican Congressman and later became Ohio State Governor.

In 1897, William McKinley was elected to the presidential office by a comfortable majority. Under his presidency, America asserted itself in the global arena. In 1900, American troops were sent to China to help quell the “Boxer Rebellion” fighting along side European and Japanese armies. McKinley also opened economic negotiations with China and established an ‘Open Door Policy’ under which American trade prospered.

Shortly after being re-elected for a second Presidential term, William McKinley

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William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination on September 14, 1901, after leading the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War and raising protective tariffs to promote American industry.

At the 1896 Republican Convention, in time of depression, the wealthy Cleveland businessman Marcus Alonzo Hanna ensured the nomination of his friend William McKinley as “the advance agent of prosperity.” The Democrats, advocating the “free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold”–which would have mildly inflated the currency–nominated William Jennings Bryan.

While Hanna used large contributions from eastern Republicans frightened by Bryan’s views on silver, McKinley met delegations on his front porch in Canton, Ohio. He won by the largest majority of popular votes since 1872.

Born in Niles, Ohio, in 1843, McKinley briefly attended Allegheny College, and was teaching in a country school when the Civil War broke out. Enlisting as a private in the Union Army, he was mustered

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William McKinley

William McKinley
25th President of the United States
January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901

William McKinley, 1896. Library of Congress

William McKinley’s presidency brought the United States into a new century, leaving behind a Gilded-aged, isolationist United States in favor of a presence across the seas. His presidency set the groundwork for policies that still affect the country to this day. With a new century, came new challenges but also new dangers. Though President McKinley’s life ended in the tragedy of assassination, he left a lasting legacy on this country and through his death, created the role of the Secret Service as it is known today.

McKinley’s Early Life

McKinley at 19 years of age, circa 1862. Library of Congress

William McKinley Jr. was born in Niles, Ohio, on January 29, 1843, to William McKinley Sr. and Nancy McKinley. McKinley was the seventh of eight children and led a happy and fun-filled childhood of fishing, hunting, swimming, ice-skating, and horseback riding. His father owned many iron foundries throughout Ohio a