2-547-040 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, 1898. Born in Niles, Ohio, McKinley became a lawyer and in 1877 entered Congress as a Republican, becoming a leading tarriff expert. He was elected President in 1896 and for a second term four years later. In 1898 he led the United States to victory in the Spanish-American War. McKinley was shot by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, on 6 September 1901 and died on 14 September. A print from Our Country in War and Relations with All Nations, by Murat Halstead, The United Subscription Book Publishers of America, 1898.