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 ...

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 ...

Trump says tariff is his favorite word in the dictionary, and he regularly praises a man he calls "the tariff king," 25th President William McKinley ... in the Civil War, and import tariff ...

Former President Donald Trump's recent remark praising President William McKinley's economic policies ... of the 1890s than ...