25th President William McKinley is born in Niles, Ohio. Fighting in the 23rd Ohio Infantry, McKinley earned a battlefield officer's commission during the Civil War, and later entered Ohio politics. McKinley was first elected president in 1896, re-elected in 1900, and was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo in 1901.
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