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Notes on this view:

This print depicts William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States. McKinley served from March 4, 1897 until his assassination on September 14, 1901. He was born in 1843 in Niles, Ohio and studied briefly at Allegheny College. Following the outbreak of the US Civil War, McKinley enlisted in the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He rapidly rose in the ranks to serve as a brevet major under Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes. After the war, Hayes continued to mentor McKinley who embarked upon a career in law and politics.

As president, McKinley expanded US foreign policy by engaging in conflict with Spain over Cuban independence and enacting the Open Door policy in China. Domestically he supported high tariffs in an effort to safeguard American industry and established the Gold Standard Act in 1900. Six months into his second term, McKinley was assassinated during a visit to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. On September 6, 1901 he was shot twice by anarchist Leon F. Czolgosz while attending a public reception at the exposition’s Temple of Music. Though full recovery was anticipated, McKinley died on September 14 due to gangrene at the site of the bullet wounds.