jan 8, 1901 - William McKinley (Term 2)
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McKinley was the last president to have served in the American Civil War, and the only one to have started the war as an enlisted soldier, beginning as a private in the Union Army and ending as a brevet major. McKinley was assassinated six months into his second term, and was succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
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