Statesmen Greats:

                       

William McKinley

          
William McKinley was born on January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio. He attended Poland Seminary and later graduated from Allegheny College. He joined the army in the Civil War as a brevet Major under Rutherford B. Hayes in the famous Ohio 23rd. He moved to Canton in 1871 where he practiced law. He married Ida Saxton that same year and later served as a member of Congress from 1877-1890 during which he sponsored the McKinley tariff bill to protect American Industry in a recession. He was elected Governor of Ohio in 1892. Through his arbitration he helped miners in two states to prevent a strike winning him a reputation as a friend of labor. During an economic collapse he was elected President on a "Gold Standard"platform defeating Democrat, William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and 1900. After defeating Spain in the Spanish American War, McKinley urged Congress to annex the Hawaiian Islands and assumed the role of Protectorate of Spanish possessions in the Western Hemisphere. He worked with his friend, Senator Mark Hanna, to convince Congress of the importance of developing what would become the Panama Canal. When McKinley was assassinated, Theodore Roosevelt promised to carry to fruition his policies in "the canal," in vigorously executing the Sherman anti-trust law, and in maintaining his strong appointments in Conservation. Revisionist historians honor him for his movement from United States isolationism to involvement as a world power.
           
   
William R. Day
William R. Day was born on April 17, 1849 in Ravenna, Ohio. After receiving a Bachelor's Degree in 1870 at the University of Michigan, and pursuing law studies he returned to practice law with William Lynch in Canton, Ohio. Admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1872, he practiced law becoming over a quarter of a century one of the most respected lawyers in Northern Ohio. He was a friend of Willliam McKinley through those years, and in 1897 President McKinley, concerned about the failing health of Secretary of State Sherman, appointed Day Assistant Secretary of State. In May of 1898 President McKinley appointed Day Secretary of State. Day was responsible for negotiating the Peace with Spain, and later the annexation of Hawaii. In 1899 he was appointed to the bench of the United States Circuit Court for the Sixth Judicial District. In 1903 he was appointed by President Teddy Roosevelt to the United States Supreme Court and remained there 13 years.

John A. Scali

John A. Scali was born on April 27, 1918 in Canton, Ohio. He received hi Bachelor's Degree in journalism from Boston University in 1942. He served as a reporter for the Boston Herald, the Boston Bureau of the United Press and for the Boston Herald Traveler from 1942-1943. From 1943-45 he served as an Associated Press War Correspondent in the European Theater of Operations. From 1945-1961 he was Diplomatic Correspondent at the Washington Bureau of the Associated Press. From 1961-1971 he was Chief Diplomatic Correspondent to ABC News. In 1971 he was Special Consultant to the President. In 1973 he was appointed U.S. Representative to the United Nations. He is famous for his role in negotiating the solution of the Cuban Missile Crisis during the John F. Kennedy Presidency.

   
   
 
   
 
Atlee Pomerene
 

Atlee Pomerene was born in Berlin, Ohio on December 6, 1863. He received both a Bachelor's Degree (1884)and a Master's Degree (1887) from Princeton University and a Law Degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1886. He began practice of Law in Canton, Ohio and served at different capacities in Canton City Government until 1908. Elected as Lieutenant Governor, he served in that position from January of 1910 until April of 1911. He resigned to assume a U.S. Senate position and after reelection he served until March 3, 1923. He moved to Cleveland in 1923 practicing law there. He was appointed by President Coolidge in 1924 to prosecute the Teapot Dome oil fraud cases. He ran unsuccessfully for the Presidential Candidacy of the Democrats in 1928. He was appointed by President Herbert Hoover to the chairmanship of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation serving from 1932-1933. He died in 1937 and is buried in West Lawn Cemetery in Canton, Ohio.

   
Andrew W. Cordier
 
Andrew was born on a farm near Canton, and graduated as Valedictorian of his high school class in Hartville. In 1922 he graduated from Manchester College and earned a Ph.D. in Medieval History from the University of Chicago. He served as Professor and chairman of the Department of History and Political Science at Manchester College from 1927 to 1944. He continued studies at the Graduate Institute of International studies in Switzerland in 1930-1931. He wrote in 1931 European Union and the League of Nations. He helped draft the founding charter of the United Nations and served as Executive Assistant under the Secretaries General, Trygve Lie and Dag Hammarskjold. During those years newsman considered Cordier the man who managed the world body. He wrote the Introduction to Arthur Samuel Lall's book, Modern International Negotiation. With Kenneth Maxwell he wrote Paths of Modern International Negotiation. With Wilder Foote he edited The Quest for Peace, the Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Lecture Series, and volume 2 of the Public Papers of the Secretaries General of the United Nations. And with Max Harrelson he published vol. 6 of The Public Papers of the Secretaries General of the United Nations. He served interim President of Columbia University resolving the crisis at the University during the Vietnam war years.
 
 
         
Frank T. Bow      

Frank Bow was born in Canton, February 20, 1901, and attended local public schools, University School in Cleveland and Culver Military Academy in Indiana. After graduating from Ohio Northern University he did post graduate work at Columbia University. Admitted to the bar, he served as Assistant Attorney General of Ohio from 1929-1932. He practiced law with Russell Ake in Canton from 1935-1950. He authored a plan for reorganizing the banks, a plan placed in operation after a bank holiday in 1934 and was named in 1935 Chairman of the Ohio state Bar Association on banks and banking. He became news editor for WHBC in Canton and served as war correspondent during World War II in the Philippines. After serving as Counsel and Legislative Assistant to Senator Andrew Schoeppel in the 81st Congress, he was elected to Congress as a Republican and served the 16th District from 1951 -1972. Identified as an ultra conservative crusader against budget deficits and federal spending increases, he was appointed to the Republican minority Economy Task Force. While a member of the House Appropriations Committee, he persuaded Budget Director, Maurice Stans, to make the Committee bipartisan and reduce international funding. He was famed for the Bow Report in which he reported on new financing and architectural design of Embassies. In 1962 he authored a Medical Care Bill submitted to the House by New York Representative, William Miller. He was most proud of the Bow-Engle Bill to fund research on desalination of water. He was the author of the book, Independent Labor Organizations and the Wagner Act, published in 1949 to clarify for non-union members and for local independent unions their legal position after the Wagner Act.

 
 
   
Ralph Regula
Ralph Regula was born in Beach City, Ohio on December 3, 1924. He attended local schools and graduated from Mt. Union College after two years in the Navy. He taught elementary. secondary and served as school administrator over a ten year period. Graduating from the McKinley School of Law, he practiced law in Navarre. From 1960 to 1964 he served on the Ohio State Board of Education. Serving first in the Ohio House from 1965, and the Ohio Senate from 1967 he was responsible for bills funding five Technological Colleges in the State. Later in Congress he would develop the Super Computer Research network through Ohio's Universities, schools, hospitals and businesses and develop minors in supercomputing at several sites. An outreach of the Ohio State Super Computer Center, the program now called the Ralph Regula School of Computational Science offers degrees through Colleges and Universities statewide. He also increased funding for education, teacher training and Pell Grants. Elected to the U.S. House in 1973, he cosponsored with John Sieberling the bill creating the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and while serving on the House Appropriations Committee from 1982-1987, he pushed funding for Cuyahoga National Park, and later the Railroad serving it. He had a great role in pushing legislation protecting the Everglades. And he has brought funding for fuel cell research to the 16th District making it a National Center. He increased funding for research in cancer, heart disease and birth defects. He also worked with Democrats and Republicans to develop the Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Site. One of his favorites roles was his continual submission of bills to prevent the removal of President McKinley's name from the country's highest mountain. He was responsible for the government development of the Defense Metals Technology Center at Stark State in 2007. He retired in 2009.