- William B. McKinley
Infobox_Senator
name = William Brown McKinley
birth_date = birth date|1856|9|15|mf=y
birth_place = city-state|Petersburg|Illinois,United States
death_date = death date and age|1926|12|7|1856|9|15|mf=y
death_place = city-state|Martinsville|Indiana,United States
residence =
state = Illinois
jr/sr = Senior Senator
term_start =March 4 ,1921
term_end =December 7 1926
predecessor =Lawrence Yates Sherman
successor =Otis F. Glenn
alongside =Joseph M. McCormick ,Charles S. Deneen
state2 =Illinois
district2 = 19th
term_start2 =March 4 1915
term_end2 =March 3 1921
predecessor2 =
successor2 =
state3 =Illinois
district3 = 19th
term_start3 =March 4 1905
term_end3 =March 3 1913
predecessor3 =
successor3 =
party = Republican
religion =
spouse =
children =
website =William Brown McKinley (
September 5 1856 -December 7 1926 ) was aUnited States Congressman from the State ofIllinois . He was born nearPetersburg, Illinois .After graduating from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , McKinley became a drug clerk in Springfield. He returned to Champaign to become a banker. In 1902, he was elected a trustee of the university. McKinley ran forU.S. House of Representatives in 1905, winning his first of four consecutive terms. In 1913, he ran for theU.S. Senate againstLawrence Yates Sherman and lost.He ran for Congress again in 1914 and won, serving from 1915 until 1921. In 1920, McKinley ran against Sherman for the Senate, this time winning. In 1926, he ran for re-election and lost to
Frank L. Smith , but died onDecember 7 1926 , aged 70, shortly before his term would have ended.External links
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