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	McKINLEY, WILLIAM - LoveToKnow Article on McKINLEY, WILLIAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		McKinley reflected the strong sentiment of his manufacturing constituency in behalf of a high protective tariff, and he soon became known in Congress (where he particularly attracted the attention of James G. Blaine) as one of the most diligent students of industrial policy and question affecting national taxation.
		In the United States the McKinley Tariff Bill was one of the main causes of the Democratic victory in the Congressional elections of 1890, in which McKinley himself was defeated by an extraordinary Democratic gerrymander of his Congressional district.
		McKinley's message to the new Congress dwelt upon the necessity of an immediate reyision of the tariff and revenue system of the country, and the so-called Dingley Tariff Bill was accordingly passed through both houses, and was approved by the president on the 24th of July.
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	William McKinley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McKinley was elected Governor of Ohio in 1891, and re-elected in 1893, serving until January 13, 1896.
		McKinley led the country into the Spanish-American War, bringing the former colonies of Spain in the Pacific (Guam and the Philippines) and the Caribbean Sea (Cuba and Puerto Rico) under American control.
		McKinley was the first president to ride in an automobile (the electric ambulance that took him to the hospital after he was shot).
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	MSN Encarta - William McKinley
		McKinley served in the Congress of the United States from 1877 to 1891 with the exception of one term.
		McKinley said his belief in a laissez-faire economic system, in which government did not interfere with business, did not deter him from demanding high tariffs to protect American industry from foreign competition.
		McKinley’s political career was almost ruined in 1893 when a friend, whose bank notes he had endorsed, went bankrupt and left McKinley responsible for his debt of $130,000.
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	Biography of William McKinley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
		McKinley was a nationally known Republican party leader, and this front porch would soon become the most famous in the country as he moved toward the White House.
		McKinley agreed with the direction of this drive for equality and influence, which was spelled out in the party's national platform: "The Republican party is mindful of the rights and interests of women.
		And William McKinley was the principal actor in the drama.
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	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)

	Jiskha Homework Help - Social Studies: U.S. History: William McKinley
		McKinley was elected to the House of Representatives in 1876, and would go on to serve seven terms in Congress from 1877 to 1891, except for a nine-month period on 1884-1885.
		McKinley’s popularity was such that he regularly won reelection in his districts despite his districts being most Democratic and the boundaries of those districts were constantly changing so as to ensure Democratic victories.
		McKinley’s platform was on the protective tariff and the gold standard, which became the main focus of the campaign.
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	William McKinley
		William McKinley, the twenty-fifth president of the United States, was born in Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio, on the 29th of January 1843.
		In 1892 McKinley was the permanent president of the National Republican Convention which met in Minneapolis and which renominated Benjamin Harrison on the first ballot, on which James G. Blaine received 182 and five-sixths votes, and McKinley, in spite of his efforts to the contrary, received 182 votes.
		In 1900 McKinley was unanimously renominated by the National Republican Convention which met in Philadelphia on the 19th of June, and which nominated Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of New York, for the Vice Presidency.
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	Descendants of Johann Heinrich Eschbach - aqwn24 - Generated by Family Ties Deluxe Edition
		McKinley, Ida Saxton (1847-1907), was the wife of William McKinley, who served as president of the United States from 1897 to 1901.
		The protective tariff is a policy, he said, that believes "in American work for American workmen, that believes in American wages for American laborers, that believes in American homes for American citizens." The McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 raised taxes on imports to a record high and supported trade agreements with Latin-American countries.
		McKinley was rushed to a hospital for surgery.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William McKinley
		William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, from 1897 until his assassination in 1901.
		William McKinley was elected President of the United States in 1896, defeating William Jennings Bryan.
		McKinley was shot by Leon F. olgosz on September 6, 1901, while attending the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died from his wounds there on September 14, 1901.
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	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.
		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.
		The destruction of the battleship Maine gave the advocates of war a rallying cry, and McKinley made the decision to ask Congress for a declaration of war.
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	William McKinley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William McKinley was born in 1843 in Niles, Ohio.
		McKinley became governor of Ohio in 1892 and President of the United States in 1896.
		McKinley led the county into the Spanish-American War which ended with our possession of the Philippines and the Caribbean Sea under American control.
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	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)

	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for American President William McKinley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ida Saxton McKinley suffered a complete breakdown after witnessing the deaths of her mother and 2 daughters, and for the rest of her life McKinley juggled his political career with caring for an invalid wife prone to seizures, anxiety attacks and apoplexy.
		The tariff, which raised duties on import goods higher than they had ever been in American history, was McKinley's effort to secure American manufacturers against competition from foreign producers and keep the jobs and wages of American workers sound.
		McKinley returned to Ohio where he found the support and friendship of industrial magnate Mark Hanna, whose pig-steel empire had benefited from the McKinley Tariff.
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	Article 2
		The Democratic president, Grover Cleveland, had effectively welded the tariff and trust questions together in a famous 1887 speech, and during the Sherman Act debate populists had charged that "Tariffs are the mother of trusts" (Telser [1987]).
		The goal of the 1890 tariff reform was to lower revenues--the U.S. federal budget in 1888-89 had run a $53 million, or 13.4 percent, surplus--and this, the Congressional leadership candidly proposed to accomplish via a perverse Laffer Curve effect.
		Critics of the tariff were only too eager to relate the problem of protectionism to the redistribution away from consumers and the deadweight losses from reduced trade.
	www.sp.uconn.edu /~langlois/E382/Hazlett.html (4617 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -McKINLEY, WILLIAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although his district was strongly Democratic, McKinley was elected to serve in Congress from 1877 to 1883 and from 1885 to 1891, losing only in the Democratic landslide years of 1882 and 1890.
		McKinley's amiable personality, his pragmatic approach to issues, his willingness to compromise, and his patient, unobtrusive maneuvering toward his objectives masked his strength of character and his capacity to deal with Congress and dominate his advisers.
		McKinley, who had done much to enhance the power and prestige of the presidency, was reelected in 1900, but his second term ended abruptly when he was assassinated by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, the next year.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_058300_mckinleywill.htm (534 words)

	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	McKinley Tariff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The McKinley Tariff of 1890 was what set the average ad valorem tariff rate for imports to the United States at 48.4%, and protected agriculture.
		Its chief proponent was Congressman and future President William McKinley.
		In return for its passage, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act was given Republican support.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McKinley_tariff (112 words)

	1896: The Tariff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tariffs had been a key political issue throughout the nineteenth century, with industrial and Northeastern interests generally in favor, farmers usually opposed.
		In 1896, the name of Republican candidate William McKinley was widely associated with the "McKinley Tariff" of 1890, which he had shepherded through Congress as an Ohio Representative.
		That tariff proved unpopular--but the depression of 1893, which began under a Democratic administration, refocused criticism on the Democrats.
	projects.vassar.edu /1896/tariff.html (333 words)

	Dingley Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		of Maine, raised tariffs in United States to counteract the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894, which had lowered rates.
		Under the tariff, rates reached a new high, averaging 46.5%, and in some cases up to 57%.
		The Dingley Act would remain in effect until the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dingley_tariff (107 words)

	United States History: The Gilded Age (1890) to World War I
		During his administrations (after completing McKinley's administration, Roosevelt was elected in 1904), the Department of Justice instituted 43 suits against the trusts and won several important judicial decisions, including one ordering the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey as a holding company with a monopoly on oil refining.
		On the other side were the so-called insurgents, later known as progressives, who denounced the high rates of the Payne-Aldrich tariff as a betrayal of the promises made in the Republican platform and criticized the administration for refusing to continue the reforms begun by Roosevelt.
		Wilson's social, economic, and political policies as a unit are sometimes known as the New Freedom, from the title of a volume by him published in 1913 and containing significant passages from his addresses in the campaign of 1912.
	www.emayzine.com /lectures/Gilded~1.htm (2121 words)

	McKinley
		William McKinley was nominated as the Republican candidate for president with the assistance of Mark Hanna, a wealthy industrialist.
		Favoring tariffs as protection for prosperity for the nation and a limit on silver, he defeated William Jennings Bryan, whom many feared as a threat to the government in the election of 1892.
		McKinley laid the basis for further growth of the office under Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
	www.spanamwar.com /McKinley.htm (1226 words)

	William McKinley
		McKinley dominated the political arena at the opening of the Republican presidential nominating convention held in St. Louis in 1895.
		McKinley, in hoping to satisfy western voters, sent delegates to a special European conference to explore the possibility of an international agreement to include silver along with gold as an acceptable backing for the major European currencies.
		McKinley had campaigned to increase the tariff income both as a means of reducing internal taxes and as a means of encouraging the expansion of domestic industry and employment for American workers.
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	WNYRHS HISTORY PanAm Expo 2001
		As Western New Yorkers and Buffalonians, we are all quite familiar with the tragic assassination of William McKinley, twenty-fifth President of the United States when shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901 during a public reception in the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition.
		McKinley accompanied by most of his Cabinet, their wives and members of the press-43 in all, would be departing Washington DC.
		McKinley stood it with patience, but it was evident that the demonstration was most painful to her.
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	William McKinley
		With the support of Mark Hanna, a shrewd Cleveland businessman interested in safeguarding tariff protection, McKinley became governor of Ohio in 1892 and Republican presidential candidate in 1896.
		The chief event of McKinley's administration was the war with Spain, which resulted in the United States' acquisition of the Philippines and other islands.
		William McKinley - McKinley, William, 1843–1901, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901), b.
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	Part VII, Chapter 96.
		In President Harrison's time McKinley, then a member of Congress, succeeded in getting the tariff made higher than ever before, and the Act then passed was known as the McKinley Tariff Act.
		The Spaniards waged war against their revolted subjects in most cruel fashion, and the people of the United States looked on with sorrow and indignation at the barbarous deeds which were done at their very doors.
		McKinley had been a soldier in the Civil War, and had fought well and gallantly for the flag.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/marshall/country/country-VII-96.html (1911 words)

	McKINLEY, William, Jr. (1843-1901) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edited by Calvin Colton, with an introduction by Thomas B. Reed and a history of tariff legislation from 1812 to 1896.
		President McKinley’s last and greatest speech: Outlining his masterly and statesmanlike policy for the American nation: And President Roosevelt’s proclamation of that speech as the policy of his administration.
		The tariff; a review of the tariff legislation of the United States from 1812 to 1896.
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