Born in Ohio, William McKinley served as a top Civil War military aid, studied the law, and became a leader in the temperance movement before he was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1876.

Challenges: Questions of bimetallism backing the currency haunted William McKinley during his first term. In the Spanish-American War of 1898, McKinley was a ... nor did he intervene for any other ...

“William McKinley’s legacy,” the message read ... Denali boosters make much of the fact that McKinley, the last Civil War veteran to serve as president, known as the Major for his rank, never visited ...

A Republican, Benjamin Harrison campaigned against Grover Cleveland in defense of the protective tariff, as well as sound currency, pensions for Civil War veterans ... supported by Ohio Representative ...