POTUS McKinley, William

◀ 23rd President (Skipping Cleveland)

William McKinley Jr.
25th President of the United States of America​

Born: January 29, 1843

Birthplace: Niles, Ohio

Father: William McKinley Sr. 1807 – 1892

(Buried: West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio)​

Mother: Nancy Allison 1809 – 1897

(Buried: West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio)​

Wife: Ida Saxton 1847 – 1907

(Buried: McKinley Memorial Park, Canton, Ohio)​

Married: January 25, 1871 at the First Presbyterian Church, in Canton, Ohio

Children:

Katherine "Katie" McKinley 1871 – 1875​

(Buried: McKinley Memorial Park, Canton, Ohio)​

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Ida McKinley 1873 – 1873​

(Buried: McKinley Memorial Park, Canton, Ohio)​

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Education:

Attended Poland Seminary

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Attended Alleghany College​

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1866 – 1867: Attended Albany, New York Law School​

Occupation before War:

1860 – 1861: School Teacher Kerr School District in Poland, Ohio​

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Clerk at Post Office in Poland, Ohio​

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1862: Private in 23rd Ohio Volunteers Infantry Regiment​

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1861: Participated in Battle of Carnifex Ferry, Virginia​

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1862: Commissary Sgt 23rd Ohio Volunteers Infantry Regiment​

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1862: Participated in the Battle of South Mountain, Maryland​

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1862: Participated in the Battle of Antietam, Maryland

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1862: Recruiter of Union Army Volunteer Recruits in Ohio​

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1862 – 1864: 2nd Lt. 23rd Ohio Volunteers Infantry Regiment​

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1863: Participated in Battle of Buffington Island​

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1864: Participated in the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain, Virginia​

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1864: Participated in Second Battle of Kernstown, Virginia​

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1864 – 1865: Captain 23rd Ohio Volunteers Infantry Regiment​

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1864: Had his horse shot from under him Battle of Berryville, VA.

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1864: Participated in Battle of Opequon Creek, Virginia​

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1864: Participated in Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia​

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1864: Participated in Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia​

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1864: Cast his first Presidential Vote for Abraham Lincoln​

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1865: Adjutant for Brig. General Samuel S. Carroll​

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1865: Served with First Veteran Corps in Washington, D.C.​

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1865: Brevetted to rank of Major in Union Army​

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Generals Carroll and Hancock recommended McKinley Stay in Army​

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1865: Mustered out of Service in August​

Occupation after War:

1867 – 1869: Attorney in Canton, Ohio​

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1869 – 1871: Prosecutor for Stark County, Ohio​

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1869 – 1877: Attorney in Canton Ohio​

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1877 – 1883: U.S. Congressman from Ohio​

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1880: Ohio Representative on Republican National Committee​

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1881 – 1883: Congressional Chairman on Revision of laws​

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1883 – 1885: Attorney in Canton, Ohio​

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1884: At Large Delegate to Republican Party National Convention​

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1884: Helped Secure Republican Nomination for James G. Blaine​

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1885 – 1891: U.S. Congressman from Ohio​

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1888: Ohio Delegate to Republican Party National Convention​

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1888: Supporter of John Sherman for Republican Nomination​

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1889 – 1891: Congressional Chairman Ways and Means Committee​

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1889: Narrowly defeated to be Speaker of U.S. House of Reps.​

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1892 – 1896: Governor of Ohio​

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1892: Unsuccessful Candidate for Republican Nomination​

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1892: Campaigner for Benjamin Harrison's Reelection Campaign​

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1897 – 1901: President of United States of America​

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1901: Assassinated in Buffalo, New York, on Sept. 6th at 4:07 PM

Died: September 14, 1901

Time of Death: 2:15 AM

Place of Death: Buffalo, New York

Cause of Death: Assassination Wounds

Last Words: "It is God's way. His will, not ours be done"

Age at time of Death: 58 years old

Burial Place: McKinley National Memorial, McKinley Memorial Park, Canton, Ohio

 

[donna]

A good man.

 

[donna]

Happy Birthday. I always enjoy the Coffee story on him during the war.

 

[ErnieMac]

Enlisted as an 18-year-old private at the beginning of the War. Promoted to captain (bvt. major) by War's end.

 

[Pollaco]

Him and a cousin (William McKinley Osbourne) originally enlisted in a unit known as the Poland Guards in June 1861. It was this unit along with several other small ones that were consolidated into the 23rd Ohio Infantry Regiment. This regiment carred both Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley on it's rolls.The first commander of the Regiment was Col. William Rosecrans.A second colonel, Eliakim P. Scammon, took over command a month later when the unit was sent to Western Virginia as part of the Kanawha Division.McKinley thought Scammon a Martinet.

 

[Pollaco]

After the battle of Kernstown McKinley, now a captain, was transferred to the staff of General Crook.When Crook was captured by Confederate raiders in the confusion and reorganization that followed McKinley found himself on the staff of 4 different generals in 15 days. George Crook, John S. Stevenson, Samuel S. Caroll and Winfield Scott Hancock, and then back on Carroll's staff.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Today is President McKinley's birthday he would be a soldier who would go on to become President of the United States.

 

[ErnieMac]

McKinley never forgot his Civil War experiences. In 1898 as the press whipped the public into a frenzy over Spanish concentration camps in Cuba and the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor, he tried to negotiate a settlement with the Spanish to avoid war.

 

[USS ALASKA]

Major McKinley: William Mckinley & The Civil War by William H. Armstrong

"The Civil War was a crucial experience in shaping the character and political life of William McKinley. In this engrossing and well-researched study, William H. Armstrong provides the most thorough treatment of McKinley's military career and shows how his wartime record influenced his emergence as the first modern president. Armstrong is balanced and fair-minded, and his work should become the definitive account of the Civil War years of an important figure of the Gilded Age." ―Lewis L. Gould, author of The Presidency of William McKinley

Major McKinley is the first complete account of the Civil War service of President William McKinley, the last of the Civil War veterans to reach the White House and the only one who served in the ranks. McKinley enlisted as a private in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (Later commanded by another future president, Rutherford B. Hayes) and was the regiment's commissary sergeant when his bravery at the Battle of Antietam led to a commission and an assignment to Hayes's military staff.

Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including McKinley's own paper and the diaries and letters of men who served with him, this book presents a new picture of McKinley as a soldier and provides a fresh appreciation of his later life as a veteran in politics.

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Cheers,
USS ALASKA

 

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

"I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up. I do not want to see another."
-McKinley to Leonard Wood, early 1898

 

[TallTallMan]

Bet this private never dreamed the end he'd have.