William McKinley hasn’t had a starring role on the American political stage like this in 124 years. There he was, lauded in President Trump’s inauguration speech on Monday, for making “our ...

An undated photo of William McKinley, 25th President of the United States. He was inaugurated in 1897, and again in 1901 just prior to being assassinated on Sept. 6, 1901.

CANTON (AP) — If you’ve been intrigued by President Donald Trump’s praise of his long-ago White House predecessor William McKinley and yearn to know more, it’s time you head to eastern Ohio.

And his accomplishments are as politically divisive today as in his day: protective tariffs, territorial expansion, ... William McKinley on the porch of his home in Canton, Ohio.

William McKinley. Terms: 1897-1901 Political Party: Republican First Lady: Ida Saxton McKinley Vice President: Garret A. Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt. Overview ...

When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a model for today’s U.S. leadership, he harked back to the far-distant ...

ASMA KHALID, BYLINE: In the late 19th century, William McKinley was a congressman from Ohio. DOUGLAS IRWIN: And he ushered through a tariff bill in 1890. KHALID: That's Douglas Irwin.

But William McKinley is best remembered as being one of the four presidents that was assassinated. Our 25th president loved tariffs, and oversaw an expansion of U.S. territory around the globe.

As Robert Merry explains in his biography, William McKinley: Architect of the American Century, “the president used his Annual Message of December 5, 1898, to declare an isthmian canal ...

McKinley was swept out of Congress due in part to blowback from the high tariffs. He then made a comeback by winning two races for Ohio governor and, in 1896, the presidency amid an economic downturn.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has suggested ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector and McKinley backer who wrote an account of his Alaskan adventures in ...