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William McKinley was born at Niles, Ohio, on January 28, 1843. He enlisted in the 23-Ohio Volunteers on June 11, 1861, as a private and was mustered out on July 26, 1865, as a major, brevetted for gallantry under fire. He was elected to Congress from Ohio in 1876, 1878, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1886, and 1888, was elected Governor of Ohio in 1891 and 1893, and was elected President of the United States in 1896 and 1900. The twenty-fifth President of the United States of America, he died in Buffalo on September 14, 1901, after being shot by an assassin as he was extending to him the hand of courtesy.
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