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	As a result of the reaction against the Republican party throughout the country, caused by the protracted struggle over the tariff bill, McKinley was defeated in the election for Congress by 300 votes in counties that had previously gone Democratic by 3000.
1891.	November 3. Elected governor of Ohio by a plurality of 21,511, polling the largest vote that had ever been cast for governor in Ohio.
1892.	As delegate at large to the national convention at Minneapolis and chairman of the convention, McKinley refused to permit the consideration of his name, and supported the renomination of President Harrison.
	Death of William McKinley, Sr., in November.
1893.	Feb. 17. Lost his private fortune through the failure of a friend.
	Unanimously renominated for governor of Ohio, and reëlected by a plurality of 80,995, this majority being the greatest ever recorded, with a single exception during the Civil War, for any candidate in the history of the state.
1896.	June 18. At the Republican national convention in St. Louis, McKinley was nominated for President on the first ballot.
	November 3. Received a popular vote in the presidential election of 7,104,779, a plurality of 601,854 over his Democratic opponent.
1897.	March 4. Inaugurated President of the United States for the twenty-eighth quadrennial term.
	March 6. Issued proclamation for an extra session of Congress to assemble March 15. The President's message dwelt solely upon the need of a revision of the existing tariff law.
	May 17. In response to an appeal from the President, Congress appropriated $50,000 for the relief of the destitution in Cuba.