William McKinley belongs, in many ways, to the in-between period of history that Americans are most apt to overlook. The last of the Civil War veterans to serve as president, McKinley is often ...

And it is perhaps appropriate that, in pursuing his heady aims, he should single out for praise and guidance William McKinley ...

Born in Ohio, William McKinley served as a top Civil War military aid, studied the law, and became a leader in the temperance movement before he was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1876.

Challenges: Questions of bimetallism backing the currency haunted William McKinley during his first term. In the Spanish-American War of 1898, McKinley was a ... nor did he intervene for any other ...

Kern said McKinley first rose to prominence as a Civil War veteran, and an Ohio Republican ... Eight days later, President William McKinley died. He was 58. The public response was the equivalent ...

The McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 delivered tariffs of up to 50 per cent on Canadian exports to the U.S. But it didn’t dissuade ...

Republican strategist Karl Rove, author of “The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still ... Trump instead ...