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  Biography of William McKinley
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.
Born in Niles, Ohio, in 1843, McKinley briefly attended Allegheny College, and was teaching in a country school when the Civil War broke out.
Reporting the stalemate between Spanish forces and revolutionaries in Cuba, newspapers screamed that a quarter of the population was dead and the rest suffering acutely.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/wm25.html   (597 words)

  
  William McKinley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
McKinley saw combat in several battles; at Antietam he was promoted from commissary sergeant by his commander (and fellow future US President) Rutherford B. Hayes for delivering rations under enemy fire.
McKinley was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress.
McKinley County, New Mexico is named in his honor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_McKinley   (880 words)

  
 Biography of William McKinley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
McKinley won the case and so impressed the judge that he was paid $25.00 for the case and was given a job.
McKinley’s platform was based on the protective tariff and the gold standard, which became the main issue of the campaign.
McKinley was rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery.
www.mckinley.lib.oh.us /museum/biography.htm   (2094 words)

  
 National Park Service - The Presidents (William McKinley)
McKinley, the seventh of nine children, was born in 1843 at Niles, Ohio.
In 1861 McKinley enlisted as a private in an Ohio infantry regiment that was to be commanded by Col. and future-President Rutherford B. Hayes.
McKinley had the first popular vote majority since 1872, and the Republicans continued the congressional dominance they had gained in 1894 and were not to lose until the elections of 1910.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/presidents/bio25.htm   (1155 words)

  
 Ohio Historical Society | Ohio Governors
McKinley was born at Niles, Ohio, January 29, 1843, the seventh son of William and Nancy Allison McKinley.
The McKinley family in Pennsylvania and later in Ohio was engaged in the manufacture of iron.
In 1869 McKinley was elected prosecuting attorney of Stark County.
www.ohiohistory.org /onlinedoc/ohgovernment/governors/mckinley.html   (1204 words)

  
 President William McKinley
McKinley's moral philosophy was grounded on a puritanical and religious faith that aimed at leading mankind to the holiness of Christian civilization.
McKinley hesitated long and prayerfully but finally decided, as he informed a Methodist delegation, "to take them all and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them" certainly influenced McKinley's decision to send missionaries to the Philippines in 1898.
McKinley is a key figure in modern history because he was the first American president to put expansionism and imperialism in practice.
www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/mckinley/William.html   (2261 words)

  
 William McKinley
In 1869, McKinley was elected as a Republican prosecuting attorney - in a Democratic county.
McKinley was devasted and suffered for the rest of her life.
McKinley was a strong believer of a high tariff, and he was involved with the McKinley Tariff Act.
www.course-notes.org /biographies/williammckinley.htm   (1008 words)

  
 President William McKinley: Health & Medical History
McKinley was 5 feet 7 inches tall, shorter than the average man. He was ridiculed as a "little boy" when he ran for President in 1896 [7].
McKinley's manhood should not have been open to challenge, given that he enlisted in the Army at age 17, just weeks after the Civil War began at Ft. Sumter, and that he served in the field virtually the entire war, including the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Winchester, Cedar Creek, and countless others [6a].
McKinley recovered a few moments later, and resumed her part in the conversation where she had left off [1c].
www.doctorzebra.com /prez/t25.htm   (725 words)

  
 McKinley, William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
It had already cost McKinley his seat in Congress in the election of 1890, but he had attracted the attention of the powerful capitalist-politician Marcus A. Hanna, who put the force of the efficiently organized Ohio Republican machine behind the ex-congressman.
McKinley was elected governor in 1891 and again in 1893.
Although McKinley had earlier favored bimetallism and voted for the Bland-Allison Act, he accepted a platform endorsing the gold standard, and the issue was squarely joined.
www.bartleby.com /65/mc/McKinlW.html   (505 words)

  
 1896: William McKinley
William McKinley (1843-1901), former Congressman and Governor of Ohio, won the 1896 election and became the 23rd U.S. President.
McKinley was re-elected in 1900, again running against William Jennings Bryan, who emphasized anti-imperialist themes.
It was the misfortune of the McKinley Act that it took effect at the opening of a presidential contest, and when "labor troubles" excited the public mind.
projects.vassar.edu /1896/mckinley.html   (1456 words)

  
 William McKinley
William McKinley was born the seventh of nine children to Scots-Irish parents in Niles, Ohio, a small community near the Pennsylvania border.
McKinley made his initial foray into politics in 1869, when he ran successfully as a Republican for the position of prosecuting attorney for Stark County.
McKinley’s first term saw a further increase in the protective tariff and the passage of the Gold Standard Act (1900), but most of his attention was directed toward Cuba and Spain, and later the Philippines.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h809.html   (667 words)

  
 William McKinley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
McKinley succeeded President Grover Cleveland and twice defeated the well-known statesman William Jennings Bryan for the presidency.
McKinley was the third president to be assassinated.
In fact, McKinley's presidency was a time of great change for the nation, and he did much to shape that change.
www.worldbook.com /wc/features/presidents/html/mckinley.htm   (349 words)

  
 William McKinley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was born in Niles, Ohio on January 29, 1843.
McKinley was elected governor of Ohio in 1891, serving a second term in 1893.
McKinley did not complete his second term because he was shot by an anarchist on September 6, 1901.
www.loc.gov /rr/hispanic/1898/mckinley.html   (339 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Republicans Admire Bill . . . McKinley, That Is
Democrats would complain that McKinley was a mere puppet of moneybags Hanna -- indeed, that was Bradley's thesis in his campaign finance speech this week -- but historians generally believe they were a well-matched team of two strong men.
Calm McKinley, on the other hand, ran as "the advance agent of prosperity" and became the first candidate in a generation to win a majority of the popular vote.
McKinley was challenging a party that had presided over an economic collapse.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/campaign072499.htm   (1227 words)

  
 The American Experience | America 1900 | People & Events
While McKinley's style put off some observers-one referred to him as a figure "who walked among men like a bronze statue determinedly looking for a pedestal"-the American people elected him their 25th president with a plurality of more than 600,000 votes.
Displeasure with the duration of the war in the Philippines threatened to weaken McKinley as the presidential campaign of 1900 got underway.
Buttressed by the vigor of his newly chosen running mate, Theodore Roosevelt, McKinley was able to regain the White House, beating out William Jennings Bryan by an even greater margin than in 1896.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/1900/peopleevents/pande20.html   (405 words)

  
 William McKinley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
McKinley’s bravery under fire impressed Hayes, and he was promoted to commissary sergeant.
In 1867, McKinley was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 1896, William McKinley was nominated for the Presidency.
edweb.tusd.k12.az.us /sandre/Presidents/McKinley.htm   (438 words)

  
 The Presidency of William McKinley
He rejects the erroneous stereotypes that have long obscured McKinley's historical significance: McKinley as the compliant agent of Mark Hanna or as an irresolute executive in the Cuban crisis that led to war with Spain.
He contends that McKinley is an important figure in the history of the United States because of the large contributions he made to the strengthening and broadening of the power of the chief executive.
While this volume touches on many aspects of McKinley's leadership, the core of it relates to the coming of the Spanish-American War, the president's conduct of the war itself, and the emergence of an American empire from 1898 to 1900.
www.kansaspress.ku.edu /goumck.html   (630 words)

  
 Ann Arbor, Michigan Commercial and Residential Real Estate, McKinley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
McKinley was founded in 1968 by Ambassador Ronald N. Weiser and is led by Albert M. Berriz, the company's President and CEO.
McKinley is a proven leader in all aspects of real estate and specializes in solving complex real estate problems for its own portfolio and select clientele.
McKinley manages over $1.2 billion in assets including more than 15,000 apartments and 4.5 million square feet of commercial space throughout the United States.
www.mckinley.com /mckinley/about   (264 words)

  
 American President
For a long time, William McKinley was considered a mediocre President, a chief executive who was controlled by his political cronies and who was pressured into war with Spain by the press.
McKinley's difficult foreign policy decisions, especially his policy toward China and his decision to go to war with Spain over Cuban independence, helped the U.S. enter the twentieth century as a new and powerful empire on the world stage.
McKinley gave the First Lady his full attention, breaking White House protocol in seating her by his side at State dinners.
www.americanpresident.org /history/williammckinley   (815 words)

  
 John McKinley -  Biography
John McKinley was born in Culpepper County, Virginia in 1780.
McKinley served on the original board of trustees of Florence’s First Presbyterian Church and is credited with starting one of the area’s first schools.
In 1838, while a resident of Florence, John McKinley was appointed the 23rd Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court by President Martin Van Buren.
www2.una.edu /library/McKinley/bio.html   (690 words)

  
 Chronology--Philippines and Guam
McKinley instructed the U.S. peace delegation to insist on the annexation of the Philippines in the peace talks.
President McKinley issued his Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation, ceding the Philippines to the United States, and instructing the American occupying army to use force, as necessary, to impose American sovereignity over the Philippines even before he obtained Senate ratification of the peace treaty with Spain.
President McKinley's proclamation of December 21, 1898, declaring U.S. policy in the Philippine Islands as one of "benevolent assimilation" in which "mild sway of justice and right" would be substituted for "arbitrary rule," was published in the Philippine Islands.
www.loc.gov /rr/hispanic/1898/chronphil.html   (3561 words)

  
 Karl Rove's Inspired by McKinley--But It's Benjamin Harrison's Script He's Following
Workers voted for McKinley believing that the tariff and the gold standard would protect their prosperity and that their interests were closer to the factory owners than to the farmers.
McKinley was not the first Republican to attempt to build a new majority in the years 1876 to 1892.
McKinley had intangible political quality of luck, the one thing that could not be bought.
hnn.us /articles/4576.html   (929 words)

  
 Did YOU Know? President McKinley's Assassin Executed Within Two Months?
After William McKinley defeated William Jennings Bryan to become the 25th American President in 1896, he came to the White House with a wide margin of public support.
According to "Uncle Joe" Cannon, future Speaker of the House, McKinley kept his ear so close to the ground that it was full of grasshoppers.
Unknown to the McKinleys, this would be their last trip together.
www.lawbuzz.com /didyou/mckinley/mckinley.htm   (303 words)

  
 McKinley
William McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio, on January 29, 1843, the seventh child of William and Nancy McKinley.
William McKinley was nominated as the Republican candidate for president with the assistance of Mark Hanna, a wealthy industrialist.
McKinley laid the basis for further growth of the office under Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
www.spanamwar.com /McKinley.htm   (1226 words)

  
 Students question McKinley services - The Daily Illini - News
Freund said McKinley contacted her a little more than a week later, and the misdiagnosis was corrected.
She said her one complaint is that McKinley is not very equipped to deal with serious illnesses.
Lawrance also said that McKinley is the only clinic in town accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, meaning that McKinley meets all its quality standards.
www.dailyillini.com /news/2005/02/02/News/Students.Question.Mckinley.Services-848875.shtml   (1011 words)

  
 Tyson can depend on co-trainer McKinley - 6/5/02
   While McKinley, an Ann Arbor native and Tyson's co-trainer, might be front and center in the ring during camp, he stays -- by his own choosing -- far from the spotlight outside it.
   McKinley turned to promoting in the 1980s, but when money was hard to come by, he contacted Steward about becoming a trainer.
It was not too long before he realized Tyson was a different breed of fighter and that he would have to devise a way of being able to train him without risking life and limb.
www.detnews.com /2002/sports/0206/05/d01-507059.htm   (1141 words)

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