McKinley Administrations - McKinley's Advisers
McKinley's Advisers
Ohio industrialist Mark Hanna was McKinley's closest adviser throughout his political career. Hanna had groomed McKinley for national office, backing his friend's run for Ohio governor in 1891, raising money for his campaigns, and crafting the strategies that twice won McKinley the presidency. After McKinley was elected, he offered to reward Hanna with the secretary of the Treasury post, but Hanna asked instead to fill the Senate seat vacated by Ohio senator John Sherman, who had left the Senate to become secretary of state. During McKinley's years in office, Hanna was also, without question, the president's most influential adviser on all matters of domestic policy—with Hanna's guidance McKinley charted a cautious political and economic course that won him the praise of U.S. business interests.
Although McKinley had initially been reluctant to acquire new territories, he soon acceded to the wishes of his...
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