William McKinley
McKinley states that he received Abraham’s favor and will deliver the papers as requested to President Hayes. Hayes served as the nineteenth President of the United States (1877-1881); before this, he was Governor of Ohio from 1868 to 1872 and from 1876 to 1877, and had been a major general in the Civil War and had served in Congress. Before becoming the 25th President of the United States (1897-01), McKinley served as a Representative from Ohio (1877-83, 1883-84, 1885-91) and as Governor of Ohio (1891-96). He did not finish his term in office; he was assassinated by an anarchist in Buffalo, New York in 1901.
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