Presidents of the United States of America
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25 - William McKinley
Personal Statistics:
Birth Date: January 29, 1843
Birthplace: Small frame house, Niles, Ohio
Father: William McKinley Sr. (1807-1892)
Mother: Nancy Allison (1809-1897)
Height at Prime: 5 feet 7 inches
Physical Description: Barrel chest, paunch with age, deep set blue eyes, bushy eyebrows, fair complexion, cleft chin
Religion: Methodist
Wife: Ida Saxton (June 8, 1847 – May 26, 1907)
Marriage Date: January 25, 1871
Marriage Place: First Presbyterian Church, Canton, Ohio
Children:
-- Katherine McKinley (December 25, 1871 – June 25, 1875)
-- Ida McKinley (April 1, 1873 – August 22, 1873)
Death Date: September 14, 1901
Place of Death: Home of Pan American Exposition president John G. Milburn, Buffalo, New York
Cause of Death: Gangrene that developed from an assassin’s bullet to the abdomen
Final Words: “It is God’s way. His will be done, not ours. We are all going…Oh, dearâ€
1st Burial Place: Westlawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio
2nd Burial Place: McKinley National Memorial and Museum, Canton, Ohio
Professional Statistics:
Private to brevet major in the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry (1861-1865)
U.S. Representative (1877-1883), (1885-1891)
Governor of Ohio (1892-1896)
25th President of the United States (1897-1901)
Political Party: Republican
His Vice Presidents:
-- Garret Augustus Hobart (1897-1899)
-- Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
Events During Presidency:
Dingley Tariff Act (1897)
Annexation of Hawaii (1898)
Spanish-American War (1898)
Open Door Policy and the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1900)
Gold Standard Act (1900)
 
