2-501-919 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, 1900. Detail from a stereoscopic card showing President McKinley (1843-1901) seated at the head of the council table in the Cabinet Room at the White House. 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. McKinley was shot by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, on 6 September 1901 and died on 14 September.