William McKinley

Spencer Timmerman

Overview
25th president
Last president who served in the civil war
Lead the nation in the Spanish-American war
3rd president to be assassinated

Early Life
Born William McKinley Jr. 1843 Niles, Ohio
William McKinley Sr. & Nancy Allison McKinley
7th of 8 children
Enrolled in Allegheny College 1860
When.

Civil War
Joined the Union 1861
Brevet Major
Commanding Officer Rutherford B. Hayes

Post War
1866-67 Attended Albany Law
School
1869 Elected Stark County
Prosecutor
1871 Married Ida Saxton

Children
Katherine Katie McKinley
Ida McKinley

House of Representatives
Republican
Served in US House of Representatives 1877-91
Appointed to the Ways and Means Committee
McKinley Tariff of 1890
Served as Governor of Ohio for 2 terms 1892-96

Under free trade the trader is the master and the

producer the slave. Protection is but the law of nature,
the law of self-preservation, of self-development, of
securing the highest and best destiny of the race of
man.

Presidency
Spanish-American war
Boxer Rebellion
Gold Standard

Spanish-American War
Yellow Journalism
Remember the Maine!
10 weeks

victims sacrificed to the imperialist

greed in its fervor to seize control of
Cuba.

Boxer Rebellion
Violent Anti-foreign/Christian uprising in China
Nationalist, opposed to imperial expansion and
missionaries
5,000 US Troops
Did not consult congress

the origins of modern presidential

war powers.

Gold Standard Act

Against Bimetallists
Passed the Act in 1900
Dollar fixed 25 8/10 grains of gold

Assassination
Leon Czolgosz
Shot twice point blank
Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

Its Gods way. His will, not ours, be

done.

McKinley National Memorial