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 ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Now to the “Idol of Ohio” - William McKinley. Before becoming the 25th president - McKinley ...

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 ...

The Republican tariff movement grew throughout the late 1800s and arguably peaked with McKinley, Trump's tariff icon, in the 1890s.

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 ...

Contrary to Trump's portrayal of the 1890s as an era of unprecedented wealth, the United States experienced a severe economic depression from 1893 to 1897. Journalist Paul Farhi noted on X on Friday ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. -- President William McKinley and William J. Bryan were honored to-day by the newly formed association of Spanish War Veterans. Col. Bryan was elected a member of the Council ...