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William McKinley, Jr.
25th President of the United States
March 4, 1897 to September 14, 1901
SW Corner of Main and 4th Streets
Born: January 29, 1843, Niles, Ohio
Died: September 14, 1901, Buffalo, NY, age 58
The former 39th Governor of Ohio, William McKinley presided over a return to American prosperity after the Panic of 1893, marking the beginning of the greatest movement of consolidation that American business had ever seen.
His administration launched the Spanish-American War and annexed the former Spanish territories of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and set up a protectorate over Cuba. On June 16, 1897, he presided over the annexation of the formerly independent Kingdom of Hawaii.
William McKinley was ssassinated September 14, 1901, by Leon Czolgosz, an American anarchist of Polish descent.
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