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| | Facts about william mckinley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | William McKinley (January 29, 1843 - September 14, 1901) was the 25th (1897-1901) President of the United States. |
 | | Following graduation he taught school, then at the start of the American Civil War enlisted in the Union Army on June 23, 1861, as a private in the Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out as captain and brevet major of the same regiment in September 1865. |
 | | McKinley was shot by an anarchist, 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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