Following McKinley's death, his successor, President Theodore Roosevelt, and subsequent Progressive politics brought upon changes that alleviated the social and economic tensions of the Gilded Age.

William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president from more than a century ... was ratified nearly 12 years after McKinley’s death. Irwin said that in the 19th century, few claimed ...

When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a model for today’s U.S. leadership, he harked back to the far-distant era ...