william mckinley

     

This president said, "We remain accountable... for the reconstruction of Cuba as a free commonwealth"

Trivia about william mckinley

  • James Garfield died of a gunshot wound in September 1881, as did this president in September 1901
  • He was only a candidate for president when North America's tallest mountain was named for him
  • He's the subject of the September 7, 1901 headline seen here:[President Shot At Buffalo Fair]
  • Roosevelt was only 42 whern he succeeded this man as president in 1901
  • Teddy Roosevelt served as this man's VP & said that he had "No more backbone than a chocolate eclair"
  • 1843-1901
  • This president is seen here with his camera-shy wife Ida
  • In a major address on March 4, he stated that the U.S. "must remain close friends" with Cuba
  • Ida, the wife of this 25th president, had epilepsy
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • In 1897 he said, "War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed"
  • Anarchy reigned when this President was shot while in a receiving line at the 1901 Buffalo Pan-American Expo
  • Ida went with this man, her husband, to Buffalo, but wasn't present at the exposition where he was shot
  • On August 28, 1899 a film of this president reviewing troops was shot in Pittsburgh; he was shot in 1901
  • The pistol used to kill this man is displayed by the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit) With a spin in a Stanley Steamer in Ohio in 1901, this man became the first U.S. president to ride in a car
  • He said in his inaugural address "War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed"
  • 1901:Leon Czolgosz
  • He remembered the Maine; it blew up during his time in office
  • The 20th century began
  • Against Bryan's "Cross of Gold" oratory, in 1896 he said, "I am a tariff man standing on a tariff platform"
  • In 1900 the GOP claimed his reelection would give people "four years more of the full dinner pail"
  • This world leader died September 14, 1901
  • In 1896 an Alaskan mount was named for this man elected president that year
  • Ida Saxton, the daughter of a Canton, Ohio banker, married this future president in 1871
  • This president's September 6, 1901 assassination was inspired by the killing of Italy's King Umberto I the year before
  • William II(Prince of Ohio)
  • Ida Saxton
  • January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio
  • William Jennings Bryan (twice)
  • Teddy Roosevelt reportedly said that this predecessor had "as much backbone as a chocolate eclair"
  • A special luncheon at the 1901 expo in Buffalo for this President's wife went on without her
  • In 1901 this wounded pres. was treated by a gynecological surgeon who used a sewing needle to close him up
  • William Allen White is quoted as saying this 25th president's face was an "unchipped mask of a kindly, dull gentleman"
  • In annexing the Philippines, this president said that "The march of events rules and overrules human action"
  • Garret Hobart was such a good VP that this president didn't replace him after he died in 1899
  • "The Idol of Ohio"