This man quietly had black Georgia postmaster Isaac Loften transferred after Loften was almost lynched.
This man quietly had black Georgia postmaster Isaac Loften transferred after Loften was almost lynched. A few years after he lost the House speakership to Thomas Reed, his need to repay a debt almost derailed his governorship of Ohio. At the urging of strategist Mark Hanna, he stayed home during a "front porch campaign;" after that campaign succeeded, he dispatched Commodore Dewey to Manila Bay following the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz ("CHOHL-gosh") targeted this man at the Buffalo World's Fair. For 10 points, name this president who oversaw the Spanish-American War, the predecessor of Theodore Roosevelt.
This man quietly had black Georgia postmaster Isaac Loften transferred after Loften was almost lynched.
William McKinley 