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 of Ohio — a Civil War hero, congressman, and governor twice elected ...

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 forceful and effective ... nor did he ...

Elected after the closing of the American frontier to the west, Mckinley found new ways to expand in the Pacific and Caribbean following the Spanish American War. His Open Door policy to China ...

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 ...