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.

William McKinley belongs, in many ways, to the in-between period of history that Americans are most apt to overlook. The last of the Civil War veterans to serve as president, McKinley is often ...

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 ...

Elected after the closing of the American frontier to the west, Mckinley found new ways to expand in the Pacific and Caribbean following the Spanish American War. His Open Door policy to China ...

At Shenandoah Valley, McKinley was “gently chided” by his commanding officer, according to historian William ... war; he decided instead to go home to Ohio — but he never gave up his civil ...

William McKinley was the 25th president of the United ... At the same time, as the last president to have served in the Civil War, McKinley was famous for the quote: “We want no wars of conquest ...

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 ...