Career of McKinley and life of the president
A detailed biographical sketch tracing William McKinley's life from his 1843 birth in Niles Ohio through military service in the Civil War, legal career, and seven terms in Congress to his governorship of Ohio and presidency. It covers his ancestry, education at Allegheny College, early teaching, Civil War promotion record, law practice, political rise, and the Roosevelt era context.
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Horn
Niles
Trumbull County
Allegheny College
Meadville
Twenty-third
Ohio Volunteer Infantry
South Mountain
Antietam
Kernstown
Lincoln
Warren
Albany
Stark County
Ohio
United States
M’kinley
Western Hemisphere
McKinley
Congress
Chble
William McKinley
Poland
Mahoning County
Union Seminary
Alleghany College
Kerr
Methodist Episcopal Church
Ohio Volunteers
W.S. Rosecrans
Rutherford B. Hayes
Stanley Matthews
Charles E. Gudden
Canton
Albany Law School
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Career Milestones Timeline
The text traces Theodore Roosevelt from his 1858 New York birth to his 1900 vice presidency. It lists Harvard graduation in 1880, state assembly service in 1883 and 1884, 1886 NY mayoral nomination, Civil Service Commission appointment in 1886, NY Police Commissioner in 1895, Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897, Rough Riders leadership at San Juan Hill, governor of New York in 1898, and 1900 nominations and election as Vice President.
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Theodore Roosevelt
New York
United States
New York City
Rough Riders
United States Volunteer Cavalry
San Juan Hill
Cuba
Knickerbocker
Knickerbockers
Klaas Martensen van Roosevelt
Jannetje Samuels- Thomas
Netherlands
New Amsterdam
Manhattan
Assembly
James Roosevelt
James J. Roosevelt
Supreme Court Bench
General Assembly
Congress
Isac Roosevelt
New York Provincial Congress
Jacob J. Roosevelt
Nicholas Roosevelt
Robert H. Livingston
John Stevens
Robert Fulton
Cornelius van Schaick Roosvelt
Chemical Bank
James Henry Roosevelt
Roosevelt Hospital
Martha Bulloch
Theodore
Young Roosevelt
Harvard
Europe
Murray Hill
James G. Blaine
Hewitt
United States Civil Service Commission
Harrison
New York Police Commissioners
Navy
McKinley
Navy Department
Rought Riders
Theodore Roosevelt's Rise From Rough Riders to Governor
Secretary Long of the navy department recalls Theodore Roosevelt among Rough Riders. Roosevelt resigned May 6, 1898 to organize the Rough Riders after prior New York National Guard service. He served as lieutenant colonel, then colonel, at San Juan, and later became governor of New York by 1900. He married twice, first Alice Lee, then Edith Kermit Carow, with five children.
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Rough Riders
Northwest
New York National Guard
Cuba
Gener. Shafter
San Juan
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
McKinley
Alice Lee
Boston
Edith Kermig§ Carew
Napoleon laments London papers and plans St Helena monologues
The supposition of retirement under fire haunts Napoleon as he surveys Moscow’s ruins. He mutters that critics will use his behavior to claim he is quitting amid danger and notes an idea for a tutored persona in future writings.
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William McKinley
St. Louis
Sherman
Benjamin Harrison
Harrison
Napoleon
Moscow
London
St. Helena
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William M’kinley
Scoton
James
Ireland
James McKinley
America
David McKinley
Chanceford Township
York County
Washington
Paulus Hook
Chester Hill
Amboy
Columbiana County
Pine Township
Mercer County
William
Nancy Allison
Fayetville
Winchester
Berryville
Opequan
Cedar Creek
Fisher's Hill
R. B. Hayes
George Crook
Winfred
Hancock
Abram
National Civil Service Commission
New York Board of Police Commissioners
Aassembly
Theodore Roosevel
Harvard University
Long
Theodore Roosvelt
the Navy
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