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President William McKinley

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William McKinley rose to prominence as a Civil War veteran, congressman with a singular focus: tariffs

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President William McKinley was assassinated in 1896 .

Historian: McKinley rose to prominence as a congressman with a singular focus: tariffs.

He was accused of being "weak-kneed and vacillating" by a lot of people, including his own Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt .

McKinley rejected idea of the U.S. as an expansionist power for the point of its own self-aggrandizement.

For more info: - McKinley Presidential Library & Museum, Canton , Ohio - Presidential historian Kevin Kern , University of Akron Story produced by Dustin Stephens . Editor: Carol Ross . More presidential history from Mo Rocca :.

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