Example sentences for: mckinley

How can you use “mckinley” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Only when Theodore Roosevelt took office following the 1901 assassination of William McKinley did the Treasury Department authorize full-time presidential protection.

  • There is history here, of all sorts: Kelly Harrell impersonating Charles Guiteau, President Garfield's assassin; the Carolina Tar Heels voicing the lament of shoemakers made redundant by the Industrial Revolution; Charlie Poole singing, "Roosevelt in the White House, he's doing his best; McKinley in the graveyard, he's taking his rest."

  • GOP leaders are furious at losing an advantage in corporate fund raising that dates back 100 years, to the election of 1896, when William McKinley's legendary money man Mark Hanna mobilized American business to stop the Democratic populist William Jennings Bryan.

  • Hanna elected William McKinley president in 1896 by marshalling the wealth of the robber barons on his behalf.

  • 1901: Near-Sighted Teddy Roosevelt Bags President McKinley on Safari


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