President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.

Born in Ohio, William McKinley served as a top Civil War military aid, studied the law, and became a leader in the temperance movement before he was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1876.

William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan ...

William McKinley belongs, in many ways, to the in-between period of history that Americans are most apt to overlook. The last of the Civil War veterans ... see how discrete events and actions ...

Challenges: Questions of bimetallism backing the currency haunted William McKinley during his first term. In the Spanish-American War of 1898, McKinley was a forceful and effective commander-in-chief ...

Elected after the closing of the American frontier to the west, Mckinley found new ways to expand in the Pacific and Caribbean following the Spanish American War. His Open Door policy to China ...

Who was William McKinley? McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio, in 1843. After serving in Ohio’s 23rd Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, he became an attorney, moved to Canton.

Growing up in the iron-producing region of eastern Ohio in the 1840s, future president William ... McKinley’s tariff legislation also unintentionally helped spark the 1898 Spanish-American War ...

He has resurrected the memory of President William ... was repealed. McKinley was not a “natural businessman” or any other kind. He was a postal clerk, schoolteacher, Civil War officer ...

About two-thirds of the way through the speech, though, he devoted two full paragraphs to talking about his admiration for the 25th President of the United States, William McKinley. It was a ...

In his 2025 inaugural address, Donald Trump compared himself to former President William McKinley boasting that ... continuous losses following the Civil War, Cleveland was seen by Democrats ...