His namesake tariff act set an average rate for imports at 48.4% and he used his advocacy of the gold standard and a brilliant advertising campaign designed by Mark Hanna to become the last Civil War veteran elected President in 1896.  
This man rose to the rank of major when he retired from the army at age 22 in 1865. His election to Congress in 1876 was in part helped by Rutherford B. Hayes, and he chaired the Committee on Ways and Means from 1889 to 1891. His namesake tariff act set an average rate for imports at 48.4% and he used his advocacy of the gold standard and a brilliant advertising campaign designed by Mark Hanna to become the last Civil War veteran elected President in 1896.  For ten points, what president, defeated William Jennings Bryant before being assassinated by Leon Czolgosz [ZOLL-GOSH] in 1901?
This man rose to the rank of major when he retired from the army at age 22 in 1865.
William McKinley, Jr.