William Mckinley Research Paper

William Howard Taft was Americas 27th president. William was born on September 15, 1857. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio into the Taft family. Taft’s dad, Alphonso Taft was a lawyer and public official; he was Presidents Grant’s secretary of war. Taft’s father was a lawyer. William’s mother Louise Maria Taft was Alphonso’s second wife. William had two half brothers, two brothers and one sister. His ancestry consists of English, Scotch-Irish. William attended a public school in Cincinnati. He went to Woodward High School and then Yale University in 1874. He was quite a smart boy; he graduated second in his whole class of Yale University. Williams’s father also attended Yale and graduated in 1833 to later become a tutor at Yale. Taft, after

Of course this would not have been at all possible if it were not for his campaign leader Mark Hanna. Through the leadership of Mark Hanna, McKinley was able to forge alliances with big businessmen, prosperous farmers and professions making his campaign budget out to be about 3.5 million dollars causing his campaign to be the most expensive of its time. With the discovery of the large amount of money spent on McKinley’s campaign several progressive politicians and muckraking journalists accused the wealthy donors of corrupting the electoral process and alleged that the donors were being fed special handouts and favors as a result of donating their money. However, these cries were ignored until the 1904 political elections that lead to the beginning of the organized progress for campaign finance reform. (Morgan, 2003)

William McKinley was born on January 29, 1843, his parents are William McKinley Sr. and Nancy Allison McKinley (“William” bio 1). He was born in Niles, Ohio and attended Allegheny College to be posted as a country school teacher. He then enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War in 1861 and earned the rank of Brevet Major of Volunteers (1). After the Civil War he returned home, started studying law, and eventually moved to Canton, Ohio to open his own law firm (1). Very soon after he moved to Canton, he married Ida Saxton, the daughter of a local banker (1). McKinley then entered Ohio politics in 1869 where he quickly rose through the ranks as a Republican ultimately becoming the twenty-fifth president of the United States (1).

He was rarely seen, while serving as congressman and governor, without his trademark carnation. McKinley served 7 terms in Congress from 1877-1891, except for a 9-months in 1884-1885. The House ruled that his opponent, lawyer Jonathan Wallace, had received the most votes in the 1882 election, so Wallace took McKinley’s seat for the rest of the term. McKinley easily got back to the office in the 1884 election. McKinley consistently won re-election even though the districts he represented were heavily Democratic. As a congressman, he focused his energies on the tariff problem and became known as a protectionist and as a persuasive speaker. He was usually associated with being on the side of big business, but he also worked hard for labor and later, as governor of Ohio, he encouraged employees to join labor unions and to criticize employers who refused workers the right to organized. Also as congressman he supported gold over silver as the backbone of America’s money system. In 1889, Thomas Reed of Maine defeated him in the position of Speaker of the House. McKinley lost his next bid for Congress and returned to Canton in 1891. As governor, a position he held for two terms from 1891-1895, he proposed laws to protect railroad workers and address the issue of child labor, and a state board of arbitration was established to deal with labor and business problems. During this time as governor he became friends with millionaire industrialist Mark Hanna

The Election of 1800 was notably to be of the most significant elections in American history of governmental evolvement. It marked once power struggle to a astonishing transfer of power from one party to another in national government; this transfer of power was also accomplished in a non-violent and organized fashion, which marked the evolving maturity of the nation's first system of political parties . The election was a party contest for control of the national government and for determining the direction and management of national policy. This election was the first time both parties used congressional caucuses to nominate candidates for their ballots which was a never heard of occurrence in that day and age. This specific election also made second history in the first, as it was the first presidential election to be decided in the House of Representatives.

Katherine Portas was the first daughter of Skip and Marie, the first granddaughter of the Godlewski’s, third granddaughter to Skip’s parents, and the first great-granddaughter of Donald’s mother, Kay. The full legal name of the baby girl was Katherine Victoria Portas. Both Marie and Skip wanted Katherine as a name, and the liked the name Victoria. They called Great-Grandmother Kay and she was delighted. She became even more excited when she realized they had given the new baby her entire name, Katherine Victoria. Marie had not realized

After many brilliant years of being a successful dentist, she retired in the mid-1930s. June 20, 1944, Ida’s second husband William Rollins died from injuries due to a motorcycle accident. Ida remained widowed until death. Ida Gray Nelson, Rollins died on May 3, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. Ida left behind no children but her memory and accomplishments will never be forgotten. Ida opened the door for females and minorities in the medical field all over the

Roosevelt, taking office in 1901 after the assassination of President McKinley, inherited a unique situation-America was, for the first time,

Ida B. Wells was born in Mississippi on July 16 1862. Ida and her family were slaves but about six months later her and all the slaves in America were freed, but for Ida and her family they had to face a lot of discriminatory rules and practices since living and a southern state in America. Her father James Bell was apart of a republican party and help start a school called Shaw University (now Rust college). Here Ida received her early schooling. Sadly Ida had to drop out at the age of 16 when her family was struck with yellow fever, Ida had to care for her whole family while they recovered. Tragically both of her parents passed away from the sickness along with one of her siblings. In order for her to care for the rest of her family she

South Grammar School at the age of 8 years old. The next year he went to George Brownell's English

III. McKinley had a relatively easy and normal childhood. He was the seventh child of eight. His parents were loving people who instilled in McKinley the importance of hard-work, religion, and education. McKinley worked very hard in school as a youth and then attended Alleghany College in Pennsylvania for one term, until he had to leave for financial reasons. During the Civil War, he proved to be an excellent soldier and quickly moved up the ranks to the position of Brevet Major. Like many presidents

With the level of scandal and conspiracy surrounding our current presidential election, it may seem difficult to imagine an election where the candidates were barely divisive, and a photo of a presidential nominee skinny dipping in the Hudson River was not enough to cause scandal, or even interest in a major-party candidate. However, if we rewind the clock just 112 years to the election of 1904, we find a Cortland County native running as the Democratic Party candidate that no one could say anything bad about. Unfortunately for him, he was running against the very popular Theodore Roosevelt.

Cody was born to Isacc and Marry Ann Cody. At the time William had two sisters,

Although the Federalists controlled much of the public opinion, John Swanwick and the Democratic-Republicans procured the victory. Swanwick controlled the votes of seven of the twelve wards, and collected 56% of the votes cast (93). This defeat resulted in a sudden shift from Federalist power to Democratic-Republican dominance and Federalism slowly lost more and more influence.

she moved to New York City in 1904. She met Edith Lewis the same year,