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Background Information
In 1896, William McKinley restored Republican control of the White House after the second administration of Grover Cleveland but, shortly after hs re-election to a second term, he was assassinated. Buffalo, the westernmost large city in New York State, owes its economic development primarily to the opening of the Erie Canal. The assassination of William McKinley in 1901 catapulted Teddy Roosevelt from the obscurity of the vice-presidency into the White House.