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The next year, McKinley undertook a high-profile case defending a group of striking coal miners, who were arrested for rioting after a clash with strikebreakers. [47] Lynch, McKinley's opponent in the 1871 election, and his partner, William R. Day, were the opposing counsel, and the mine owners included Mark Hanna, a Cleveland businessman. [47]
McKinley rose to prominence within the Republican Party as a congressman closely associated with protective tariffs.He earned national notoriety in the 1880s and 1890s for his nationwide campaigning, and in 1891 he won election as Governor of Ohio. [2]
[3] [4] McKinley carried most states outside of the Solid South and won 51.6% of the popular vote. The election results were similar to those of 1896, though McKinley picked up several Western states and Bryan picked up Kentucky. Six months into his second term, McKinley was assassinated, and his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, succeeded him.
April 12 - McKinley signs the Foraker Act into law. April 30 - Hawaii is incorporated as a U.S. territory. July 12 - McKinley accepts the Republican presidential nomination. [5] November 6 - McKinley is elected to a second term in the 1900 United States presidential election, defeating William Jennings Bryan for a second time.
Even so, McKinley won re-election in 1900 in a landslide. Fun fact: William McKinley is on the $500 bill. ... And they had a portrait of McKinley on the wall of her schoolhouse – this is almost ...
William McKinley, the 25th president, hailed from Ohio and never visited Alaska, but a prospector dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” in 1896 — the year McKinley went on to be elected president.
In 1890, six years before McKinley’s election as president, Congress passed his legislation that raised the tariffs on most imported manufactured goods to about 50%.
The national popular vote was rather close, as McKinley defeated Bryan by 602,500 votes, receiving 51% to Bryan's 46.7%: a shift of 53,000 votes in California, Kentucky, Ohio and Oregon would have won Bryan the election despite McKinley winning the majority of the popular vote, but due to the joint Democratic-Populist ticket, this also would ...