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Benjamin Harrison
1896 portrait
23rd President of the United States
In office March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893
Vice President
Levi P. Morton
Preceded by
Grover Cleveland
Succeeded by
Grover Cleveland
United States Senator from Indiana
In office March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1887
Preceded by
Joseph E. McDonald
Succeeded by
David Turpie
Personal details
Born
(1833-08-20)August 20, 1833 North Bend, Ohio, U.S.
Died
March 13, 1901(1901-03-13) (aged 67) Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Resting place
Crown Hill Cemetery
Political party
Whig (before 1856)
Republican (1856–1901)
Spouses
Caroline Scott
(m. 1853; died 1892)
Mary Lord Dimmick
(m. 1896)
Children
Russell
Mary
Elizabeth
Parent
John Scott Harrison (father)
Relatives
Harrison family
Education
Farmer's College
Miami University (BA)
Occupation
Politician
lawyer
Signature
Military service
Branch/service
U.S. Army (Union Army)
Years of service
1862–1865
Rank
Colonel, USV
Brevet Brig. Gen., USV
Unit
Army of the Cumberland
Commands
70th Ind. Infantry Reg.
1st Brigade, 1st Division, XX Corps
Battles/wars
American Civil War
Battle of Resaca
Battle of New Hope Church
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain,
Battle of Marietta
Battle of Peachtree Creek
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Nashville
Benjamin Harrison's voice
On his presence at the first Pan-American Congress Recorded 1889
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Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American politician who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father.
Harrison was born on a farm by the Ohio River and graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. After moving to Indianapolis, he established himself as a prominent local attorney, Presbyterian church leader, and politician in Indiana. During the American Civil War, he served in the Union Army as a colonel, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a brevet brigadier general of volunteers in 1865. Harrison unsuccessfully ran for governor of Indiana in 1876. The Indiana General Assembly elected Harrison to a six-year term in the Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1887.
A Republican, Harrison was elected to the presidency in 1888, defeating the Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland in the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote. Hallmarks of Harrison's administration were unprecedented economic legislation, including the McKinley Tariff, which imposed historic protective trade rates, and the Sherman Antitrust Act. Harrison also facilitated the creation of the national forest reserves through an amendment to the Land Revision Act of 1891. During his administration six western states were admitted to the Union. In addition, Harrison substantially strengthened and modernized the U.S. Navy and conducted an active foreign policy, but his proposals to secure federal education funding as well as voting rights enforcement for African Americans were unsuccessful.
Due in large part to surplus revenues from the tariffs, federal spending reached one billion dollars for the first time during his term. The spending issue in part led to the defeat of the Republicans in the 1890 midterm elections. Cleveland defeated Harrison for reelection in 1892, due to the growing unpopularity of high tariffs and high federal spending. He returned to private life and his law practice in Indianapolis. In 1899 he represented Venezuela in its British Guiana boundary dispute with Great Britain. Harrison traveled to the court in Paris as part of the case and after a brief stay returned to Indianapolis. He died at his home in Indianapolis in 1901 of complications from influenza. Many have praised Harrison's commitment to African Americans' voting rights, and his work ethic and integrity, but scholars and historians generally rank him as an average president, due to the uneventful nature of his term.[1]
^Spetter, Allan B. (October 4, 2016). "BENJAMIN HARRISON: IMPACT AND LEGACY". Miller Center. University of Virginia. Retrieved May 16, 2018. "Because of his lack of personal passion and the failure of anything truly eventful, such as a major war, during his administration, Harrison, along with every other President from the post-Reconstruction era to 1900, has been assigned to the rankings of mediocrity. He has been remembered as an average President, not among the best but certainly not among the worst."
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