Died 1907-05-26.
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Ida Saxton McKinley
Ida McKinley was the first lady of the United States from 1897 until 1901, as the wife of President William McKinley. McKinley also served as the First Lady of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 while her husband was the governor of Ohio.
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politics · First Lady of the United States from 1897 to 1901 · politician · president · also Ida Saxton McKinley, Ida Saxton, Mrs. William McKinley, Ida McKinley, McKinley
Born 8 June 1847 · Died 26 May 1907 · Q238397
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1907· 2 entries
Ida received a letter from James Benjamin Parker, who attempted to stop her husband's assassination, asking for help
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1901· 1 entry
President McKinley was shot in Buffalo, New York, in the stomach by a 28-year-old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz
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1897· 1 entry
Career landmark: First Lady of the United States (1897–1901).
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1892· 1 entry
Sued Saxton in the Supreme Court for alienation of affections, settling for $1,850 plus legal costs (after quietly remarrying Lucy Graham)—but Saxton later spurned his conquest
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1871· 1 entry
Ida Saxton, aged 23, married William McKinley, aged 27, at the newly built First Presbyterian Church in Canton in a joint Methodist-Presbyterian service
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1870· 1 entry
Saxton began seriously courting McKinley after he impressed her with his introduction of Horace Greeley at a lecture
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1868· 2 entries
Her father insisted that she become an actress to help raise funds for the construction of a new Presbyterian church
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At a picnic at Meyers Lake, Ohio, about two miles from Canton
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1847· 2 entries
Born 1847-06-08.
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In Canton, Ohio, the eldest child of James Saxton, a prominent Canton banker, and Katherine "Kate" DeWalt
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