Roosevelt and others considered him partly responsible for the murder of McKinley.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

Mr. McKinley examined everything with critical care, seeking something material to blame for his son's illness.

Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.

Politicians often resent this need for separation – sometimes sending their bodyguards away from them for personal or publicity reasons ; U. S. President William McKinley did this at the public reception where he was assassinated.

* Opper cartoons for 1900 election ridiculing TR and McKinley as pawns of Trusts and Sen. Hanna

James “ Tama Jim ” Wilson resided for much of the 1890s with his family at the Farm House until he joined President William McKinley ’ s cabinet as U. S. Secretary of Agriculture.

Pressure in Capitol builds for war in 1898 ; Reed ( upper left ) is unable to contain it, as McKinley watches

When McKinley switched to support for the war, Reed disagreed.

His opponent in the general election was William Jennings Bryan, who had run for president twice before, in 1896 and in 1900 against William McKinley.

He later ran for mayor and governor and even sought the presidential nomination, but lost much of his personal prestige when outrage exploded in 1901 after columnist Ambrose Bierce and editor Arthur Brisbane published separate columns months apart that suggested the assassination of William McKinley.

William McKinley ran for president on the basis of the gold standard.

When the Republicans in June 1896 nominated former Ohio Governor William McKinley for president and passed at his request a platform strongly supporting the gold standard, a number of " Silver Republicans " walked out of the convention.

McKinley on the other hand, opted for a front porch campaign.

Harrison was nominated on the first ballot with 535. 17 votes to 182. 83 for Blaine, 182 for William McKinley of Ohio, and the rest scattered.

As they did in 1876, the Republicans dipped into the talent pool of the Governor's office of Ohio to nominate William McKinley for president and New Jersey's Garret Hobart for vice-president.

McKinley was the last veteran of the American Civil War to be nominated for President by either major party.

Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, was also a member of Oneida for a brief time.

Economist Thomas DiLorenzo notes that Senator Sherman sponsored the 1890 William McKinley tariff just three months after the Sherman Act, and agrees with The New York Times which wrote on October 1, 1890: " That so-called Anti-Trust law was passed to deceive the people and to clear the way for the enactment of this Pro-Trust law relating to the tariff.

The Sweet Water Hotel and its famous lithia spring water were so popular that Mark Twain, members of the Vanderbilt family, and Presidents Cleveland, Taft, McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt all enjoyed the many amenities of the resort which included the world famous Lithia Vapor Baths.

Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt have all made short addresses in Macomb.

The former hotel is famous for its balcony where presidents Taft, McKinley, Harding and Roosevelt all campaigned.

Hanna paid all expenses to get McKinley the nomination the following year, although the governor was in any event the frontrunner.

Even though both McKinley and his wife Ida insisted on putting their property in the hands of the supporters, who served as trustees, Hanna and his associates fundraised with such success from business owners and the general public that all McKinley property was returned intact, and when President McKinley died in 1901, no claims were made against his estate.

Despite the opposition of Illinois ' Republican political machine, Dawes and Hanna were able to secure all but a few of Illinois ' delegates for McKinley, giving the former Ohio governor a strong advantage going into the convention.

Despite carrying the South and all the West except California and Oregon, Bryan lost the more populated, industrial North and East — and the election — to the Republican William McKinley with his campaign slogan " A Full Dinner Pail ".

* The 27th Bombardment Group, less one squadron, arrived at Fort William McKinley by ship on 20 November ; however all of its A-24 aircraft had not yet arrived by 6 December.

He is the only astronaut to have climbed all the way to the top of Mount McKinley.

So despite having been asked to send a list to the McKinley administration of what posts he desired, by the time he arrived from the west coast Mosby found that all had been " unexpectedly " given to someone else and he was forced to return to the west coast disappointed and unemployed.

Succeeded by his son Walter, his family continued to hold Scarisbrick for centuries to come, and the historian Richard McKinley notes that " Most, and possibly all, the people named Scarisbrick found in Lancashire during the Middle Ages were members of the land-owning family " ( per The Surnames of Lancashire, English Surnames Series, IV ).

In contrast to his predecessor William McKinley, Roosevelt was a Republican who believed in government action to mitigate social evils, and as president denounced “ the representatives of predatory wealth ” as guilty of “ all forms of iniquity from the oppression of wage workers to defrauding the public .”

In 1887, statues regarding education were changed ; the state was thereafter required to provide equal opportunities to all children regardless of race .. A forceful and compelling speaker, he was influential in Republican politics, thanks, in part, to his friendship with fellow legislator ( and later president ), William McKinley.

As a result of her father's changing naval posts, McKinley grew up all over the world including in California, New York, Japan, and Maine.

Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, James Garfield and Grover Cleveland all have visited Ballast.

At its height at the very end of the 19th century, the order had counted over 8, 000 Civil War veterans as members, including nearly all notable general and flag officers and several future presidents — Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, George B. McClellan, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, and William McKinley, among others.

McKinley's opposing candidate, William Jennings Bryan, gave over 600 speeches and traveled many miles all over the United States to campaign, but McKinley outdid this by spending about twice as much money campaigning.

: President William McKinley signed an executive order on 19 February 1900, reading: " The Island of Tutuila, of the Samoan Group, and all other islands of the group east of longitude 171 degrees west of Greenwich, are hereby placed under the control of the Department of the Navy for a naval station.

In an effort to get Spain out of Cuba, President William McKinley was authorized to use all land and naval forces, as well as militia to enforce Congressional demands.

McKinley soon became so good that Price advised him to quit all other sports and concentrate on tennis.

To succeed at tennis McKinley combined this athleticism with an all out style of play and an unquenchable desire to win.

In December 1963 McKinley and Dennis Ralston, who was both McKinley ’ s rival, as captain of the University of Southern California tennis team, and his doubles partner at the U. S. Championships, played all of the matches for the U. S. in winning the Davis Cup from Australia.