For his first term on the Republican ticket, William McKinley ran on a largely pro-gold platform but reserved some possibility for bimetallism. McKinley won his first term in the greatest electoral ...
On September 6, 1899, President William McKinley was shot while on a speaking tour in Buffalo, New York. As McKinley stood in a receiving line at the Temple of Music, a Polish born anarchist named ...
Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots President William McKinley. McKinley dies eight days later. 1896 Judge Goggin dismisses robbery charges brought against the "Kitty and Jenny Gang", Chicago ...