How Did President Mckinley Become President?

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Did you know President McKinley was on the $500 from 1940 to 1965? William McKinley was a republican whoś death lead to Theodore roosevelt becoming president. He also had a wife who hated yellow so much, she band everything that color out of the white house. Another interesting fact would be that he had a parrot named Washington Post. There are many interesting things about McKinley but before he was president, not so much
McKinley was born on January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio. He had 5 sisters and 3 brothers and two parents named James S. McKinley and Mary (Polly) Rose. McKinley went to college but had to drop out and become a teacher at the local school because his family didn't have much money. Later he went to a law school because he became interested in politics. One event that shaped McKinley´s personality was when he was only 18 years old and was under command of Rutherford B. Hayes. Hayes was soon to be the president one day too, after roosevelt. Before becoming president McKinley was first a teacher, lawyer, and then a member of the U.S House of Representatives for 14 years along with Another career he had as the governor of Ohio. He was married with a woman named Ida Saxton Mckinley and had two daughters but Sadly the daughters died at a young age. …show more content…
His political party affiliation was republican. McKinley's first vice president was named Garret Hobart while his second was Theodore Roosevelt. One important event that happened while McKinley was president had to be when The Spanish-American War was started and quickly finished with a single american dead. Some other ones were annexing the Hawaiian Islands and the building of the Panama Canal. The last ones that happened were just before he died and they were having Theodore become vice president right after the first one dies and attending the Pan-American Exposition in buffalo, New York that lead to that day his

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