McKinley was the first President to ride in an automobile. He rode in an electric ambulance to the hospital after he was shot.
After being shot, he saw the shooter being beaten to the ground, he then cried, "Don't let them hurt him!"
McKinley was the first president to campaign by telephone.
His wife, Ida, couldn't stand the color yellow. She banned all yellow things from the White House, and even ordered all the yellow flowers in the garden to be uprooted!
McKinley always wore a red carnation in his lapel for good luck.
McKinley's commanding officer in the Civil War was Rutherford B. Hayes.
He was the only clean shaven president between Andrew Johnson and Woodrow Wilson.
He moved to Poland, Ohio when he was young. He often joked that he was the only president from Poland.
As a boy, McKinley almost drowned in Mosquito Creek in Niles, Ohio.
McKinley's favorite plays were those by Shakespeare, and Rip Van Winkle.
He was named after his father.
McKinley kept a parrot in the White House that could whistle "Yankee Doodle." McKinley would whistle the first part, and the bird would finish it.