William McKinley papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; McKinley tariff; Gold standard; Assassination; Elections; Progressivism (United States politics); Territorial expansion; Economic policy; Tariff; Foreign relations; Spanish-American War, 1898
Description: Correspondence, speeches, will, messages, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers pertaining primarily to McKinley's presidential administration.  Subjects include Ohio state politics, presidential elections of 1896 and 1900, gold standard, McKinley tariff, progressivism, Spanish-American War, territorial expansion, and McKinley's assassination.

Includes copies of outgoing letters signed by John Addison Porter and George B. Cortelyou, presidential secretaries.  Correspondents include Alvey A. Adee, R.A. Alger, John Rutter Brooke, Joseph Hodges Choate, Grover Cleveland, Henry Clark Corbin, Shelby M. Cullom, Charles Gates Dawes, William R. Day, Joseph Benson Foraker, John Fowler, Lyman J. Gage, James A. Garfield, James Albert Gary, Murat Halstead, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, John Hay, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Garret A. Hobart, Philander C. Knox, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Davis Long, John Tyler Morgan, Henry C. Payne, Thomas Collier Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, John Sherman, William H. Taft, James Wilson, Leonard Wood, and John Russell Young.
Notes: Open to research.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

Microfilm edition available, no. 12,411.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1961.

Gifts, George B. Cortelyou, Sr., and George B. Cortelyou, Jr., 1935-1967.

Other gift, purchase, and transfer, 1902-1997.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Music Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

U.S. president, representative, and army officer, and governor of Ohio.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid to additions available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.

Index published by the Library of Congress in 1961 available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.  Cataloged in record 63060031.