Who was the last U.S. president to have served as a combat veteran in the American Civil War?
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William McKinley
McKinley served in the 23rd Ohio Infantry alongside another future president, Rutherford B. Hayes. He was inaugurated in 1897, over 30 years after the war ended.
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