William McKinley

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William McKinley

25^th President of the United States
Term of office March 4, 1897 - September 14, 1901^[1]
Political party	Republican
Vice Presidents	Garret Hobart (1897-1899) None (1899-1901) Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
Preceded by	Grover Cleveland
Succeeded by	Theodore Roosevelt

Born	January 29, 1843 Niles, Ohio
Died	September 14, 1901 Buffalo, New York
Spouse	Ida Saxton McKinley
Religion	Methodist

William McKinley, Jr. ^[2] was the 25th President of the United States of America, serving from 1897 until 1901 as a Republican. He was born in Niles, Ohio. Before the Civil War, he briefly was a teacher in a country school. He ended up enlisting in the Union Army as a private. His political career did not start until age 34, when he won a seat in the House of Representatives. His power increased quickly, as he was appointed to the Ways and Means Committee. ^[3]

He was referred to as the "advance agent of prosperity" due to the fact that he did not advocate the silver standard, as did William Jennings Bryan, against whom he ran in both the 1896 Presidential Election and 1900 Presidential Election. ^[4] Foreign policy entered the national spolight during the McKinley Administration. His administration was notable for the Spanish-American War of 1898, which McKinley reluctantly entered after a large amount of public and media pressure. Also, McKinly signed a joint resolution of Congress annexing Hawaii on July 7, 1898. He was shot by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901. McKinley had received a number of death threats, and despite the objections of his advisors, insisted on meeting the public on this trip to Buffalo. ^[5] He died eight days later, and his Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, became President.