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Know your Presidents - July

Know your Presidents - July

William McKinley, 25th President.  President from 1897– 1901

  • Had a pet parrot that he named Washington Post.
  • "Wobbly Willie" was the nickname of William McKinley
  • First president to ride in an automobile. 
  • First president to campaign by telephone.
  • The third president to die from an assassin’s wound. He was shot during the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. He died of his wounds about a week later.
  • When he saw his assassin being beaten by his guards, the dying William McKinley cried out, "Don’t let them hurt him".