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William Mckinley



William Mckinley Jr. was the 25th President of the United States. Before being President, Mckinley was born on January 29th, 1843, in Niles, Ohio. He was apart of a very big family being the seventh of nine. After graduating from school in 1859, he enrolled the following year to a Pennsylvania school named, Allegheny College. He was only enrolled for one year and returned home in the year 1860, after becoming very ill and depressed. Once home, he attended, Mount Union College, in Alliance, Ohio; he never graduated from either university. His health eventually did start to go up, but as that was going up, the family money and finances went down. The shortness of money in the family forced him to become a country school teacher.

When the Civil War started, in 1861, thousands of Ohio men joined the Union Army to fight; among those men were William and his cousin. Throughout the war, Mckinley eventually earned the rank Brevet Major of volunteers. Also, Mckinley and several other sergeants went back to Ohio on orders to try to recruit some young men to form troops. While he was still in Ohio, he was promoted to second lieutenant because of his great service in the Antietam battle. They eventually went back to the front line of the war to continue fighting the South.

When the war was over, in 1865, Mckinley went home to Ohio his next step was to become a lawyer; he started the education for that path at, Albany Law School, in New York. Nearly a year had past, William went home to be admitted to the bar in Ohio. That pursued him to then open a small office in Canton county, along with a partnership with an experienced lawyer and judge, George W. Belden. Success from the partnership and small office led to Mckinley owning several buildings which provided a solid money income for many years. William started to join Ohio politics in 1869, when he ran for Office Prosecuting Attorney. He won as a republican and held that office for one year. With his career on the rise, he married Ida Saxton, on January 25, 1871. They had two baby girls by the year, 1873. Ida, the second baby girl never made it to one year old, dying in 1871 only six months after being born. Understandably, the death of her second child was very hard for Mckinley's wife; she became extremely sick. 1873, not even two years later from losing one child, Katherine, the first child, died with Typhoid Fever. After losing both of her daughters, Mrs. Mckinley could never mentally recover from that heart brake. Along with that, she also was diagnosed with epilepsy.

The early 70's for not a very happy time for Mckinley, his career never reflected that struggle. After being motivated by his wife to continue in politics, he eventually won an election to the US Congress in 1876. William was a clear supporter for the Protective tariffs and American manufacturing for the great things it would bring to the domestic market over foreign countries market. After only two terms in Congress, the recently elected President Garfield, asked Mckinley to fill the vacant positions on the House Ways and Means Committee. He was promoted to be the chairmen of the exuberant committee and remained there for a little over 14 years. William returned home in 1891 to run for governor; he served for two terms in that office.

During his time Mckinley's first term as governor, the US was hit with the Panic of 1893, that would lead to the struggling economic depression in the states. In this time of panic, Mckinley found a way to have many people who had been effected by the panic sympathize with William; this would lead to an easy re- election for governor. The next step for William was to become President of the United States.

William, in 1896, had earned the Republican presidential nomination. When it moved on to the general election, he would face Democratic, William Jennings Bryan. Mckinley's strong beliefs in having a stronger central government to increase American industry. In the election, Mckinley won the popular vote by about 600,000 votes and also won 33% more electoral votes then Bryan. William Mckinley was sworn into office on March 4th, 1897. William Mckinley Jr. was now the 25th President of the United States. Not long after being elected, his first act was to reduce taxes and support the growth of the domestic market and put more Americans to work. The end result of these efforts led to the America having the highest protective tariff that it has ever seen. Supporting the Dingley Tariff Act left President Mckinley on some good terms with organized labor.

President Mckinley is most famously known for his involvement during the Spanish- American War. Cuba had been fighting the Spanish for freedom for many, many years; this escalated to a war for Cuban Independence in 1895. In 1897, many people wanted to go to war to give Cuba independence but Mckinley wanted to take the peaceful, safe route by trying to convince the Spanish to either give back independence to Cuba or at least bits of it; this was done by negotiating. Very quickly it became known that negotiating with the Spaniards was not going to lead any where. Mckinley sent the //USS Maine// to keep a safe guard over the Americans that were already there. 1898 February 15, the //USS Maine// exploded along with killing the 266 men aboard. Not knowing for sure who blew the ship up, newspapers were declaring WAR. After an understanding that a possible Spanish mine blew the //Maine// up, all the pressure from the media and public forced Mckinley to go to Congress to ask to join the war. A declaration of war was presented on April 25th. In a couple of months, the US defeated Spain giving Cuba independence. December of 1898, the Treaty of Paris officially ended the Spanish- American War. Spain were forced to give up Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the US; non supporters claimed that we used it as an excuse to imperialize more countries. People from US gave much support for Mckinley's actions during the war.

The importance of domestic marketing was a big topic for President Mckinley. During his time in office, his administration followed a powerful "open door" policy that was used to support US commercial interests in China and a big and powerful ground throughout the world for American markets. To continue this policy, troops were sent to the Boxer Rebellion, revolting foreign intervention in China.

After having a busy first term in office, Mckinley ran for part two. He faced a more popular William Jennings Bryan, whom he had defeated the first time around. With people still content on how the Spanish- American War had ended, William Mckinley was re- elected to President. He was sworn in on March, 1901. This term in office did not last four years....

President Mckinley went on a journey to visit much of the western states, ending in New York where a speech was given in front of an astounding 50,000 people at the Pan- American Exposition on September 5th. The next day, while standing in a line, and unemployed Detroit mill worker, Leon Czolgosz, shot him at point- blank range. After being shot, it looked as though Mckinley would pull through but gangrene had set around his wounds and resulted in him passing away eight days later.

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