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Political Banner for William McKinley (1843-1901)
1900
Harper
USA: Ohio, Columbus
Lithograph on cotton
frame: 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 x 3/4 in.; textile: 12 1/4 x 8 3/4 x 1/16 in.
Gift of Robert A. Frank
2001.067.30

Political banner for William McKinley (1843-1901); black bust portrait of man at bottom; yellow ground with "I / Told You So" in black at top; reads at bottom "HARPER - ENG / COLUMBUS -O-"; wooden frame with glass.


Republican - and Freemason - William McKinley (1843-1901) ran for president in 1896 and in 1900, winning both times. McKinley conducted his campaign from his Ohio home in 1896, where he presented speeches to the party delegates who traveled there to hear him. Sadly, McKinley's second term as president was cut short when he was shot by anarchist Leon F. Czolgosz (1873-1901) in September 1901 while shaking hands at a reception at the Pan-American Exposition.