William McKinley

POLITICAL PARTY
Republican

RELIGION
Methodist

EDUCATION
Allegheny College; Albany Law School

VITALS
5 ft 7 in / 199 lbs

CAREER
1861-65 Private, 23rd Ohio Infantry, Union Army
1867-77 Practiced law in Canton, Ohio
1877-91 U.S. Representative, Ohio
1892-96 Governor of Ohio

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
November 3, 1896
Popular: McKinley 7,108,480 (51%) William Jennings Bryan 6,511,495 (47%)
Electoral: McKinley 271 Bryan 176
November 6, 1900
Popular: McKinley 7,218,039 (52%) Bryan 6,358,345 (46%);
Electoral: McKInley 292 Bryan 155

VICE PRESIDENTS
Garret Hobart (1897-99), Theodore Roosevelt (1901)

ADMINISTRATION
Gold in Alaska (1897); Battleship Maine explosion, Spanish-American War, Annexation of Hawaii. Treaty of Paris (1898); Philippine-American War, China Open Door Notes (1899)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT
Joseph McKenna

FIRST LADY
Ida Saxton (1897-1901)

“Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.”
Speech in Des Moines, Iowa, 1901

Portrait of William McKinley by Harriet Murphy, 1902.