Ruler · 1843 – 1901

William McKinley

Lived 1843 – 1901; statesperson, politician. President of the United States (United States), 1897 – 1901; also in the line of Military Government of the Philippine Islands and Insular Government of the Philippine Islands.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1843 – 1901; 58 years
In office: 4 years; one reign
Lines: 3; states
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

President of the United States

United States · the 26th of 48 dated reigns · 1789 – 2025

22 before

Grover Cleveland1885 – 1889

Benjamin Harrison1889 – 1893

Grover Cleveland1893 – 1897

William McKinley1897 – 1901

Theodore Roosevelt1901 – 1909

William Howard Taft1909 – 1913

Woodrow Wilson1913 – 1921

19 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1897 – 1901 · 4 years · came to it aged 54

Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide; gunshot wound

the term records: death in office

His second term ended early when he was shot on September 6, 1901, by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.

Also in the line of Military Government of the Philippine Islands (1st of 2) and Insular Government of the Philippine Islands (1st of 2).

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