McKinley, William – (Born January 29, 1843; Died, assassination, shot by Leon Czolgosz, September 14, 1901), Ohio) Twenty-Fifth President of the United States of America, (March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901), the last President to have served during the Civil War (reaching the rank of Brevet Major) and the last to have campaigned by waiving the bloody red flag, provided leadership through the short but significant Spanish-American War and the capture of the Philippine Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico, believed in free trade and the free market with limited or no governmental interference or regulation. (Republican)