National Election Statistics

1900 Presidential Election

Results of the presidential election of 1900, won by William McKinley with 292 electoral votes.

Read The Full Article

Theodore Roosevelt’s Cabinet

President: William McKinley (1901) and Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

Vice President: Vacant (1901-1905)

Secretary of State: John Hay (1901-1905)

Secretary of the Treasury: Lyman J. Gage (1901-1902), L. M. Shaw (1902-1907)

Secretary of War: Elihu Root (1901-1904), William Howard Taft (1904-1908)

Attorney General: Philander C. Knox (1901-1904), William Henry Moody (1904-1906)

Postmaster General: Charles Emory Smith (1901-1902), Henry Clay Payne (1902-1904), Robert Wynne (1904-1905)

Secretary of the Navy: John Davis Long (1901-1902), William Henry Moody (1902-1904), Paul Morton (1904-1905), Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1905-1906), and Victor H. Metcalf (1906-1908)

Secretary of the Interior: Ethan A. Hitchcock (1901-1907)

Secretary of Agriculture: James Wilson (1901-1909)

Other Sources

1900 National Election

225 to win
6,357,698 votes (45.5%)
Running Mate: Adlai Stevenson I
7,219,193 votes (51.7%)
Running Mate: Theodore Roosevelt

McKinley died from an assassin’s bullet on Sept. 14, 1901, replaced by Theodore Roosevelt.

State Electoral Votes

Alabama

11

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

8

California

9

Colorado

4

Connecticut

6

Delaware

3

District of Columbia

Florida

4

Georgia

13

Hawaii

Idaho

3

Illinois

24

Indiana

15

Iowa

13

Kansas

10

Kentucky

13

Louisiana

8

Maine

6

Maryland

8

Massachusetts

15

Michigan

14

Minnesota

9

Mississippi

9

Missouri

17

Montana

3

Nebraska

8

Nevada

3

New Hampshire

4

New Jersey

10

New Mexico

New York

36

North Carolina

11

North Dakota

3

Ohio

23

Oklahoma

Oregon

4

Pennsylvania

32

Rhode Island

4

South Carolina

9

South Dakota

4

Tennessee

12

Texas

15

Utah

3

Vermont

4

Virginia

12

Washington

4

West Virginia

6

Wisconsin

12

Wyoming

3