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Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.

William McKinley

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William McKinley
Age: 58 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 29
Died: 1901
Died: September 14
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