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William McKinley



President William McKinley at the turn of the 20th century, by Charles Parker

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25th President of the United States
In office
March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901
Vice President Garret A. Hobart (1897–1899)
None (1899–1901)
Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
Preceded by Grover Cleveland
Succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt

William McKinley
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William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, and the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected to the office. He was the last president to serve in the 19th century and the first to serve in the 20th.

By the 1880s McKinley was a national Republican leader; his signature issue was high tariffs on imports as a formula for prosperity, as typified by his McKinley Tariff of 1890. As the Republican candidate in the 1896 presidential election, he upheld the gold standard, and promoted pluralism among ethnic groups. His campaign, designed by Mark Hanna, introduced new advertising-style campaign techniques that revolutionized campaign practices and beat back the crusading of his arch-rival, William Jennings Bryan. The 1896 election is often considered a realigning election that marked the beginning of the Progressive Era.

McKinley presided over a return to prosperity after the Panic of 1893. He launched the Spanish-American War, widely popular due to the efforts of the yellow press, using the pretext of Spanish atrocities in Cuba. Later he annexed the former Spanish territories of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and set up a protectorate over Cuba. He also presided over the annexation of the formerly independent Kingdom of Hawaii. McKinley was reelected in the 1900 presidential election after another intense campaign versus Bryan, this one focused on foreign policy. After McKinley's assassination in 1901 by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz, he was succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.