William McKinley

William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was an American politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1877 to 1884, and then from 1885 to 1891. Afterwhich he became Governor Ohio, for his first term, from 1892 to 1896. After a failed bid for the Presidency in the 1896 U.S. Presidential Election, McKinley briefly resumed his law practice in Ohio before being drafted for another bid for Governor of Ohio in 1899. Thanks to his prior notoriety, McKinley won re-election for the governorship of Ohio and served again from 1900-1904. After his second governorship McKinley returned to his private law practice for nearly a decade, when, in 1912 following the appointment of Charles J. Bonaparte to the Supreme Court of the United States, President Theodore Roosevelt contacted McKinley and appointed him as the new Attorney General of the United States.