Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833March 13, 1901) was the 23rd president of the United States, serving 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. A Union Army veteran and a Republican, he defeated incumbent Grover Cleveland to win the presidency.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 while 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 Republicans' defeat in the 1890 midterm elections. Cleveland defeated Harrison for reelection in 1892, due to the growing unpopularity of high tariffs and high federal spending. Harrison 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, his work ethic, and his integrity, but scholars and historians generally rank him as an average president, due to the uneventful nature of his term. Provided by Wikipedia
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Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States : a complete collection of his public addresses from February 1888, to February, 1892 ... / by Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
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Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901 : chronology, documents, bibliographical aids / by Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
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The correspondence between Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine, 1882-1893 / by Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
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Vida constitucional de los Estados Unidos / by Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
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Vida constitucional de los Estados Unidos by Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
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Public papers and addresses of Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States, March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893 by Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
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The Constitution and administration of the United States of America by Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
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This country of ours. by Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
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Views of an ex-president / by Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
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Public papers and addresses of Benjamin Harrison : twenty-third president of the United States. March 4, 1889 to March 4, 1893. by Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
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The correspondence between Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine, 1882-1893 by Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901, Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893
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In the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, in response to Senate resolutions of March 16 and 21, 1892, showing the duties collected by Ven...
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Government exhibit, World's Columbian Exposition. Report of the Board of Management U.S. Government Exhibit, World's Columbian Exposition. December 8, 1892. -- Ordered to be print...
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In the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting,...official correspondence of the government of the United States and China, relat...
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Message from the President of the United States, in response to Senate Resolution of April 23, 1892, relative to a proposed international conference on the subject of silver coinag...
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Handbook of the American Republics. 1893. Bureau of the American Republics.
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Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Fifty-second Congres...
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Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Fifty-second Congres...
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Report of the Secretary of the Interior; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Fifty-secon...
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