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An extensively revised and expanded edition of the authoritative biography ofWilliam McKinley When George W. Bush won the White House he was the firstincumbent Republican governor elected president since William McKinley in 1896.William McKinley was the last of the Civil War veterans to reach the WhiteHouse. Known widely as the Major in honor of his military rank he rosethrough Congress to head the crucial Ways and Means Committee where in theearly 1890s he passed a strong and popular tariff bill. That success caughtthe eye of Marcus Hanna a Cleveland industrialist with a passion for politicsand an ambition to help make and elect a president. Democrats complained thatMcKinley was a mere puppet of the wealthy Hanna but historians generallybelieve they were a wellmatched team of two strongwilled men. With Hannashelp McKinley was elected governor of Ohio in 1892. In 1896 McKinley sweptaway all rivals to win the presidential nomination on the first ballot. Facedin the general election by the wellrespected and highly touted orator WilliamJennings Bryan Republicans adopted their Front Porch Campaign. Thousands ofcitizens from across the country were brought to McKinleys home in Canton fora handshake and a few words. Hanna arranged for this 3.5 million campaign tobe paid for by big business with oil baron John D. Rockefeller writing thelargest check. McKinleys military service and his support among veterans weresignificant factors in his campaign. He became the first presidential candidatein a generation to win a majority of the popular vote. McKinley was a popularpresident. Pushed reluctantly into the SpanishAmerican War McKinley wasinstrumental instarting America on the path to becoming a global power. He wasreelected by a landslide and in 1901 after delivering a speech at the PanAmerican Exposition in Buffalo he was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.McKinleys vice president Theodore Roosevelt became th «
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