On this date,
September 14, 1901, the 25th President of the United States, William McKinley
died from gangrene caused by the bullet wounds. He 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. In loving memory of
this Devout Christian Leader, I will post one of his Christian quotes.
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The more profoundly we study this wonderful
Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens
we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation. – William McKinley
[PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/714034]
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The official Presidential portrait of William
McKinley
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QUOTE: “The
more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe
its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be
our destiny as a nation.”
AUTHOR: William McKinley (January 29,
1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States,
serving from March 4, 1897 until his assassination in September 1901. McKinley
led the nation to victory in the Spanish–American War, raised protective
tariffs to promote American industry, and maintained the nation on the gold
standard in a rejection of inflationary proposals. Though McKinley's
administration was cut short with his assassination, his presidency marked the
beginning of a period of dominance by the Republican Party that lasted for more
than a third of a century.
McKinley was the last
President to have served in the American Civil War, beginning as a private in
the Union Army and ending as a brevet major. After the war, he settled in
Canton, Ohio, where he practiced law and married Ida Saxton. In 1876, he was
elected to Congress, where he became the Republican Party's expert on the
protective tariff, which he promised would bring prosperity. His 1890 McKinley
Tariff was highly controversial; which together with a Democratic redistricting
aimed at gerrymandering him out of office, led to his defeat in the Democratic
landslide of 1890. He was elected Ohio's governor in 1891 and 1893, steering a
moderate course between capital and labor interests. With the aid of his close
adviser Mark Hanna, he secured the Republican nomination for president in 1896,
amid a deep economic depression. He defeated his Democratic rival, William
Jennings Bryan, after a front-porch campaign in which he advocated "sound
money" (the gold standard unless altered by international agreement) and
promised that high tariffs would restore prosperity.
Rapid economic growth
marked McKinley's presidency. He promoted the 1897 Dingley Tariff to protect
manufacturers and factory workers from foreign competition, and in 1900, he
secured the passage of the Gold Standard Act. McKinley hoped to persuade Spain
to grant independence to rebellious Cuba without conflict, but when negotiation
failed, he led the nation in the Spanish–American War of 1898; the U.S. victory
was quick and decisive. As part of the peace settlement Spain turned over to
the United States its main overseas colonies of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the
Philippines; Cuba was promised independence but at that time remained under the
control of the U.S. Army. The United States annexed the independent Republic of
Hawaii in 1898 and it became a U.S. territory.
McKinley defeated
Bryan again in the 1900 presidential election, in a campaign focused on
imperialism, prosperity, and free silver. President McKinley was assassinated
by an anarchist in September 1901, and was succeeded by Vice President Theodore
Roosevelt. Historians regard McKinley's 1896 victory as a realigning election,
in which the political stalemate of the post-Civil War era gave way to the
Republican-dominated Fourth Party System, which began with the Progressive Era.
He is generally placed near the middle in rankings of American presidents.
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