一战中崛起  (1843年1月29日～1901年9月14日)

开端 终结 在位 1897年 1901年 

　　威廉·麦金莱（William McKinley，1843年1月29日－1901年9月14日），美国政治家，在1896年击败当时的威廉·詹宁斯·布莱恩当选总统。第25任总统（1897年3月4日 – 1901年9月14日），共和党人。麦金莱曾迫于当时《纽约日报》创办人威廉·赫斯特带动的激情主义舆论风潮，发动美西战争，占领古巴和菲律宾，镇压菲律宾当地的民族起义运动。他对中国实行门户开放政策，加入八国联军入侵中国，镇压中国的义和团运动。在他的带领下，美国开始了内战后的大规模对外扩张，进入了帝国主义时期。在经济方面，他实行金本位制度，使美国经济大大繁荣，被称为“繁荣总统”。1901年，他被无政府主义者里昂·柯佐罗滋枪杀身亡。

　　William McKinley Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, and the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected to the office.
　　
　　By the 1880s, McKinley was a national Republican leader; his signature issue was high tariffs on imports as a formula for prosperity, as typified by his McKinley Tariff of 1890. As the Republican candidate in the 1896 presidential election, he upheld the gold standard, and promoted pluralism among ethnic groups. His campaign, designed by Mark Hanna, introduced new advertising-style campaign techniques that revolutionized campaign practices and beat back the crusading of his arch-rival, William Jennings Bryan. The 1896 election is often considered a realigning election that marked the beginning of the Progressive Era.
　　
　　McKinley presided over a return to prosperity after the Panic of 1893. He launched the Spanish-American War, widely popular due to the efforts of the yellow press, using the context of Spanish atrocities in Cuba. Later he annexed the former Spanish territories of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and set up a protectorate over Cuba. He also presided over the annexation of the formerly independent Kingdom of Hawaii. McKinley was reelected in the 1900 presidential election after another intense campaign against Bryan, this one focused on foreign policy. After McKinley's assassination in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz, an American anarchist of Polish descent, he was succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.