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William McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio.
His Father is William McKinley
His mother is Nancy Campbell Allison McKinly -
For a long time, William McKinley was considered a mediocre President, a chief executive who was controlled by his political cronies and who was pressured into war with Spain by the press. Recent historians have been kinder to McKinley, seeing him instead as a decisive President who put America on the road to world power.
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Methodist was his religion
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H e attended Allagheny college in 1860
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Before he was president he was a Lawyer
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Children:
Katherine McKinley (1871-1875)
Ida McKinley (1873-UnKnown) -
Avoided war for many years and didn't like him that much
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He was in the Republican political party
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For the first sixty years of the twentieth century, historians believed that McKinley had been a weak President pressured into the war with Spain by popular passions and a nationalistic press.
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Spain spent a letter expressing a willingness to negotiate with the United States rather than fight against the United States to avoid war. President McKinley kept the letter to himself and it remained a secret.
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He Died Sep. 14,1901 in Buffalo, New York
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- "We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we need California. It is Manifest Destiny. It's just as it should be."
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- "War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed."
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- "Our differences are policies, our agreements principles."
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- "Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.
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William McKinley, was shot and fatally wounded on September 6, 1901, inside the Temple of Music on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley was shaking hands with the public when he was shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist.
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- "Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law."
