In his second term, McKinley established the gold standard as the official backing of American ... His opponent, William Jennings Bryan, won the Democratic nomination in large part for his speech ...

On September 6, 1899, President William McKinley ... assumed the presidency. McKinley was buried on September 19, 1899, and the United States observed an official five minutes of silence at ...

Growing up in the iron-producing region of eastern Ohio in the 1840s, future president William McKinley would hear ... States has long wielded tariffs as official policy, going back to the George ...

For his first term on the Republican ticket, William McKinley ran on a largely ... U.S. African-Americans garnered no firm stance by McKinley, who, although he denounced lynching, never made the issue ...