William McKinley (Freemason. Odd Fellow)
1900 - Secured passage of the Gold Standard Act. Rejecting free silver (expansionary monetary policy)
21 Apr 1898 to 13 Aug 1898 - American-Spanish Civil War - By 1900 C Cuba had become the worlds wealthiest economy due to Sugar. National City Bank of NYC- controlled by Rockefellers wanted the business (most powerful bank in US at that time)
1897 - Promoted Dingley Tarrif to protect manufacturers and factory workers from foreign competition.
4 Mar 1897 to 14 Sep 1901 - 25th President of the United States
According to Ferdinand Lundberg in his classic America’s Sixty Families, McKinley became as thoroughly implicated as his preceptor in the destinies of Standard Oil. In 1893, while Governor of Ohio, he went bankrupt, but was secretly salvaged by a syndicate comprising Mark Hanna, Myron T. Herrick, Samuel Mather, Charles Taft, Henry C. Frick, Andrew Carnegie, and others. Hanna frequently lent money to Governors Foraker and McKinley while they were in office.[8,p58]
Hanna’s Rockefeller affiliation, in 1891, was initrimate and of long standing. Rockefeller, who received his early schooling in Oewgo County, New York, became a schoolmate of Hanna’s at Central High School, Cleveland. Hanna’s coal and iron business for many years was closely allied with the Pennsylvania Railroad, from which Standard Oil got some of its juiciest secret freight rebates and in which the Rockefellers came to own stock;[8,p58]
Mark Hanna had known John D. Rockefeller since they were high-school classmates. Hanna became McKinley’s political manager. Many considered him the real White House boss; critics called the president “McHanna.” J. P. Morgan was another McKinley backer. Chicago’s Chronicle of April 14, 1898, commented: “The Rothschilds and the Morgans control the White House.”[9]
11 Jan 1892 to 13 Jan 1896 - 39th Governor of Ohio (Home of Standard Oil - Rockefeller)
4 Mar 1889 to 4 Mar 1891 - Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee
4 Mar 1877 to 3 Mar 1891 - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio
Died 14 Sep 1901, Assassinated by Leon Czolgosz (two shots to the stomach on Sept 6, 1901) at the Pan-American Exposition. Age 58.
Note: Despite a newely developed X-Ray Machine being displayed at the Pan-American Exposition (where he was shot), doctors were relunctant to use it to search for the bullet, because they did not know what side effects it might have on him. In addition, the emergency hospital at the Exposition did not have any electric lighting, even though the exteriors of many of the buildings were covered with thousands of light bulbs. Doctors used a pan to reflect sunlight onto the operating table as they treated McKinley’s wounds in a room was poory equiped (no retractors). The lost bullet was left in the body and the wound repaired.
Skull and Bones / Others / Related - to be completed
Henry Martyn Hoyt (Wolf’s Head 1878)
1909 to 20 Nov 1910 - Counselor of the State Department By President William Howard Taft (S&B 1888) (position created). When Hon Philander C. Knox LLD, under whom Mr Hoyt had served in the Department of Justice, became Secretary of State in 1909.
23 Feb 1903 - Appointed Attorney General by President Theodore Roosevelt (Freemason)
1897 to 22 Feb 1903 - Assistant Attorney General to the United States by President McKinley (assassinated), succeeding his classmate Whitney.
Frank Bosworth Brandegee (S&B 1885)
1904 - made the first eulogy of President McKinley at the first annual session of the McKinley Association.
William Howard Taft (S&B 1888)
4 Jul 1901 to 23 Dec 1903 - Governor-General of the Philippines.
Ellis Henry Roberts (S&B 1850)
1897 to 1905 - Treasurer of the United States.
Stanford Newel (S&B 1861)
1897 to 1905 - U.S. Minister to the Netherlands.
Samuel Knight (S&B 1887)
1894 to 1898 - U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California.
Andrew D. White (S&B 1853)
1879 to 1881, 1897 to 1902 - U.S. Minister to the German Empire.
Vertner Kenerson (S&B 1891) - 1901 - Assistant attending (aka Deputy Medical Director) to Pan-American Exposition during assassination of President William Kinsley.
[1] - Whithouse.gov - William McKinley
[2] - Spartacus Educational.com - William McKinley
[3] - Millercenter.org - William McKinley
[4] - Presidential-Power.org - William McKinley
[7] - Video - The Assassination of President William McKinley
[8] - Book - America’s 60 Families (1937) by Ferdinand Lundberg
[11] - Website - fraternalandmasonichistory.com - Knights of the Golden Eagle
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