Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller swears-in William McKinley as president as President Grover Cleveland watches on March 4, 1897. (Library of Congress via AP) When most presidents cite illustrious ...

William McKinley, the 25th president, loved tariffs and expanded American territory. What more do you need to know?

McKinley, 123 years after his assassination, often ranks as an above average but not spectacular president in presidential rankings. For Trump, McKinley ranks high because of his love of tariffs.

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

President Trump admires one of his long-forgotten predecessors. He has resurrected the memory of President William McKinley, whose term bridged the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector ...

IRWIN: A lot of people, including President Trump, think that the strong manufacturing economy was due to the McKinley tariff, but actually, the 1890s was not a good decade for the U.S. economy. We ...

Growing up in the iron-producing region of eastern Ohio in the 1840s, future president William McKinley ... and retake the ...

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