U.S. President William McKinley is having his biggest moment since 1928, when his face was printed on the $500 bill. For the ...

The McKinley tariff protection era in the US lasted from 1890 to 1920. A century later, another Republican US president, who has called tariff “the most beautiful word in the dictionary", seems ...

In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected ...

McKinley, who was president between 1897 and 1901, famously authored the highly protectionist Tariff Act of 1890, later named after him, which imposed over 50% tariffs on many imported goods.

After an otherwise undistinguished career in Congress crowned by the passage of the McKinley Tariff of 1890 with record-high import duties, he won the presidency in 1896 thanks to the influence of ...

And it echoes the policies of the 25th US president, William McKinley, who presided over an aggressive reciprocal tariff regime in the late 19th century. McKinley was president from 1897 until he ...

Trump has dubbed McKinley the “tariff king.” McKinley referred to himself as “a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.” In 1890, six years before McKinley’s election as president ...

(Democrats lowered the McKinley Tariff the following year.) It was also electorally disastrous for his Republican Party, which got beaten quite badly by Democrats in both 1890 and 1892, before ...

William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president, is credited with using steep tariffs to protect the fledgling tinplate industry in the late 19th century. Did they work? Were they good for the U.S. economy?

More than a century ago, then-Representative William McKinley pursued an aggressive tariff strategy that sought to protect American industry and reduce reliance on foreign imports. The McKinley ...

And how big a factor was the tariff issue when it came to McKinley losing so bad? It was a huge factor because in the United States, farmers were struggling and a lot of people were seeing higher ...