William McKinley mb-artistname Phillip Breen 25th August 1990

25th August 1990

The work is inscribed with plate details and below 'English Long-eared Bat

Inscribed within the oval frame: 'GUILIELMUS HOLDER

Showing a man holding a ladder

with a section through the flower

William McKinley mb-artistname Phillip Breen 25th August 1990William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, 19th century. McKinley (1843 1901) was born in Niles, Ohio. He became a lawyer and, in 1877, entered Congress as a Republican, becoming a leading tarriff expert. Elected President in 1896 and for a second term four years later, he was shot by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo, on 6th September 1901 and died on 14th September.