Four US Presidents have been assassinated while in office :

• Abraham Lincoln (1865)
• James A. Garfield (1881)
• William McKinley (1901)
• John F. Kennedy (1963)

There have been about two dozen actual attempts on many other Presidents.

Andrew Jackson was not hurt after a man pointed two different pistols at him at close range and pulled their triggers, but miraculously they both failed to fire.

Theodore Roosevelt was shot while running again for President in 1912, and the bullet remained in him until his death in 1919. Ronald Reagan was shot two months after his inauguration in 1981, but fortunately survived the ricochet wound that penetrated his lung.

Four U.S. presidents have been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, John Kennedy.

At least four others have been the targets of assassins, but were not killed: Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan. Reagan was seriously wounded-- the others were unhurt.
US Presidents: 4 methinx. Lincoln, Kennedy, Garfield & McKinley.

Some events related to the McKinley administration.

• Dingley Tariff Act of 1897- restored a high protective tariff as promised by his party's platform.
• Annexation of Hawaii - 1898
• Spanish American War - 1898
• Open door policy and response to the Boxer rebellion in China -1899-1900
• Gold standard act of 1900 - tied the value of the dollar to gold.
• McKinley assassination -1901

McKinley and his wife had two daughters both of whom died as infants.

• Katherine "Katie" McKinley (December 25, 1871 - June 25, 1875)- died of typhoid fever,
• Ida McKinley (April 1, 1873 - August 22, 1873) cause of death unknown.

The battleship Maine was mysteriously sunk in a Cuban harbour and McKinley used "Remember the Maine" as a campaign slogan.

This was preliminary to the Spanish-American War. Spain had colonized Cuba and Puerto Rico. The U.S. won the war. The Spanish-American War is also remembered for Teddy Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill in Cuba.

Early and effective use of propaganda.

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The U.S.S. Maine was an impressive battleship, at 319 feet long and displacing 6,682 tons it was the largest ship ever to enter the harbor at Havana. Though only a second class battleship, the nine-year-old vessel was among the most impressive of the U.S. Naval fleet. One of our country's first steel warships, the Maine was unique in the fleet due the fact that it had been totally designed and built by Americans. It was the largest ship ever actually constructed in a U.S. Navy yard.

On 15 February 1898, a massive explosion of unknown origin sank the Maine in Cuba's Havana harbor, killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard.
forget the Virginius

William McKinley Jr. (January 29, 1843 - September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, and the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected to the office.

By the 1880s, McKinley was a national Republican leader; his signature issue was high tariffs on imports as a formula for prosperity, as typified by his McKinley Tariff of 1890. As the Republican candidate in the 1896 presidential election, he upheld the gold standard, and promoted pluralism among ethnic groups. His campaign, designed by Mark Hanna, introduced new advertising-style campaign techniques that revolutionized campaign practices and beat back the crusading of his arch-rival, William Jennings Bryan. The 1896 election is often considered a realigning election that marked the beginning of the Progressive Era.

McKinley presided over a return to prosperity after the Panic of 1893. He launched the Spanish-American War, widely popular due to the efforts of the yellow press, using the context of Spanish atrocities in Cuba. Later he annexed the former Spanish territories of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and set up a protectorate over Cuba. He also presided over the annexation of the formerly independent Kingdom of Hawaii. McKinley was reelected in the 1900 presidential election after another intense campaign against Bryan, this one focused on foreign policy. After McKinley's assassination in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz, an American anarchist of Polish descent, he was succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.

The McKinley administration was known for economic prosperity and the growth and influence of business in American politics. The McKinley era saw the rise of American Imperialism. Imperialism is the desire to acquire influence or ownership of areas outside the United States, for the increase in military, economic, and commercial weath and influence they would bring to the United States. Imperialism is an outgrowth of Manifest Destiny. It is considered by some to be Manifest Destiny outside the boundaries of the nation. Trade made the US an active participant in world affairs. American ships, sailors, and merchant vessels were traveling to the world's most exotic ports. To protect that commerce, imperialism became a policy of the McKinley administration. The belief was that the United States should acquire influence and ownership of areas in the Pacific, South America, Africa and in the Atlantic, so we could protect our Naval and merchant forces and continue to increase trade. The Spanish-American War was an example of imperialism in action. MrV

I am improving the above- Mckinleys may have seemed imperialist but it was genrally more about moral and socail issues than power. McKinley did not aim to control other people, but rather wanted to make other people American. His religious and moral ideas made him believe it was American responsibility to educte and christianize others.

McKinley had five sisters and three brothers;

Brothers:

David Alison McKinley ( Nov 23, 1829-Sept 18, 1892 married Nancy Minerva Scott.

James Rose ( Sept 27, 1833 -Oct 11,1889) married Eliza Howe Fuller

Abner ( Nov 27, 1840- June 11, 1904 ) lawyer, married Anna Endsley

Sisters:

Anna (1831- July 29, 1890)

Mary Jane ( July 20, 1834- Feb 21,1868) married D. May

Helen Minerva ( Mar 8, 1834- June 9, 1924)

Sarah Elizabeth (Oct 1, 1840-1931) married Andrew Duncan

Abigail Celia ( May 1, 1845- Jan 26, 1846)