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HARRISON, BENJAMIN, President of the United States

1833–1901, 23d President of the United States (1889–93), b. North Bend, Ohio, grad. Miami Univ. (Ohio), 1852; grandson of William Henry Harrison. After reading law in Cincinnati, he moved (1854) to Indianapolis, where he was a lawyer and politician. He served in the Civil War as commander of an Indiana volunteer regiment and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers. A well-established corporation lawyer, he was (1881–87) a member of the U.S. Senate as a Republican but was defeated for reelection. The Republicans chose him (1888) as presidential candidate against Grover Cleveland, and he was elected in the electoral college, though Cleveland had the larger popular vote. Harrison as President approved all regular Republican measures, including the highly protective McKinley Tariff Act. His equivocal stand on civil service reform displeased both reformers and spoilsmen. The first Pan-American Conference was held (1889) in his administration. Defeated for reelection in 1892 by Cleveland, Harrison returned to his Indianapolis law practice. He later represented Venezuela in the Venezuela Boundary Dispute. Harrison wrote This Country of Ours (1897) and Views of an Ex-President (1901).

See his public papers and addresses (1893, repr. 1969); biography by H. J. Sievers (3 vol., 1952–68).

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Benjamin Harrison
Book by Bruce Adelson; Twenty-First Century Books, 2007
Subjects:	Harrison, Benjamin--1833-1901, Presidents--United States--Biography
...delegation, Benjamin Harrison had to decide...candidate his state would endorse...ballot, Harrison delivered his states vote to Garfield...and became president of the United States. Grateful...Garfield offered Harrison a cabinet post. As the presidents closest advisers...such as the State Department...HARRISON Benjamin and Carrie...

The Correspondence between Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine, 1882-1893
Book by Albert T. Volwiler, Benjamin Harrison, James G. Blaine; The American Philosophical Society, 1940
Subjects:	United States--Politics And Government--1889-1893
...stand in the way of Mrs. Harrison accompanying you. Pray present our kind regards to Mrs. Harrison. Be sure to give us as much...sincerely Your friend The Honble Benjamin Harrison President of the United States. 59. BLAINE TO HARRISON...

Mr. President: The First Publication from the Personal Diaries, Private Letters, Papers, and Revealing Interviews of Harry S. Truman, Thirty-Second President of the United States of America
Book by William Hillman, Harry Truman; Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952
Subjects:	Presidents--United States--Correspondence, Presidents--United States--Diaries, Truman, Harry S.--1884-1972--Correspondence, Truman, Harry S.--1884-1972--Diaries, United States--Politics And Government--1945-1989--Sources
...Hopkins Rhode Island 18. Benjamin Franklin Pennsylvania 5...Thomas Stone Maryland 12. Benjamin Harrison Virginia 26. Francis Hopkinson...get along with this old man Benjamin Franklin." The President went on talking of military...

Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time
Book by Freeman Cleaves; Charles Scribners Sons, 1939
Subjects:	Harrison, William Henry--1773-1841, Presidents--United States--Biography, United States--History--1783-1865
...1878. Son by second wife, Benjamin Harrison, b. North Bend, Ohio, Aug. 20, 1833, United States President 1889-93. Benjamin, b. Vincennes, 1806...28, 1813; m. Wm. Henry Harrison Taylor, June 16, 1836...

The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author - Vol. 1
Book by Charles Francis Adams, John Adams; Little, Brown, 1856
Subjects:	United States--Politics And Government--1775-1783, United States--Politics And Government--1783-1865
...that Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert...not of his counsels. John Dickinson, Harrison, and Robert Morris constituted a majority...next day, were J. Adams, Sherman, Harrison, Wilson, and E. Rutledge; and Richard...

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They Said It Could/couldn't Be Done: Quoted Speculation on the Possibility of a Black President, 1920-2008
Journal article by Jr. Robert Fikes; The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 33, 2009
Subjects:	African American politicians--Quotations, Meritocracy--Quotations, Political systems--Quotations, President of the United States--Quotations, Presidential elections--Demographic aspects, Presidential elections--Forecasts and trends, Presidential elections--Quotations, Presidents--Demographic aspects, Presidents--Elections, Presidents--Forecasts and trends, Presidents--Quotations
...President of the United States has...2008. Benjamin Hooks, Executive...is elected President. Byron P. Harrison, U.S...Mississippi If the Presidents theory is...to become president of the United States.... It...Democratic State Senator from...

A Victorian Tragedy: the Strange Deaths of Mayor Carter H. Harrison and Patrick Eugene Prendergast
Journal article by Richard Allen Morton; Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 96, 2003
...Meanwhile, from President Grover Cleveland...President Benjamin Harrison down to the...the vice president of the United States, to enter...arrived at the Harrison home, where...figure in state and city...from Mayor Harrison and Corporation...Bishops, United States senators...

"Union Men to the Polls, and Rebels to Their Holes": The Contested Election between John P. Bruce and Benjamin F. Loan, 1862
Journal article by Bruce Tap; Civil War History, Vol. 46, 2000
Subjects:	Bruce, John P.--Political activity, Elections--1862, Loan, Benjamin F.--Political activity, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...enemies of the United States or the Provisional...provisional state governor...member, Benjamin F. Loan...even if the State authorities...the border states and his doubts...Bruce and Benjamin F. Loan...friend of the president, Bruce attacked...since the Presidents course on...Curtis to Benjamin F. Loan...Grundy, Harrison, Holt...

Monetary Policy in the Great Depression: What the Fed Did, and Why
Journal article by David C. Wheelock; Review - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Vol. 74, 1992
Subjects:	Banking History, Economic conditions, Economic depression, Economy, Errors, Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Banks, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve monetary policy, Fisher, Irving, Glass-steagall Act, Gold, Harrison, George, History, Major Article, Miller, Adolph, Monetary Policy, Monetary policy, Money Supply, Money supply, Norris, George, Open Market Policy Conference, Policy making, Public Officials, Research, Roles, Roosevelt, Franklin D., Strong, Benjamin, United States
...by Federal Reserve Bank presidents. Although hearings on the...and the 12 Reserve Bank presidents. Five of the presidents vote on policy on a rotating...these officers are titled "president," while members of the...20th centuries a number of states experimented with insurance plans for their state-chartered banks, but...

Total Eclipse: the Destruction of the African American Community of Harrison, Arkansas, in 1905 and 1909
Journal article by Jacqueline Froelich, David Zimmermann; The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 58, 1999
Subjects:	Black history, Blacks, Harrison Arkansas, Racial violence, Racism, Riots, Towns
...Wednesday, October 11, to consider the Harrison riot. District Attorney Barnes began...evidence in the cause entitled, "The United States versus certain persons unknown for...most were established residents of Harrison, and now they had vanished. Hanna...

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Hail to the Chiefs
Magazine article by John Yoo; American Conservative, Vol. 9, April 2010
Subjects:	American history, Bush, George W, Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901), Monroe, James (1758-1831), Obama, Barack, Political power, Politics, Presidency, Presidents, Social criticism & satire, United States
...great national leader. Harrison is best remembered...since Benedict Arnold. Harrison ordered that suspected...Bauer have a tattoo of Benjamin Harrison on his buttocks...Americans, including the presidents mother-in-law...greatest 20th-century president. There is a wealth...

Lessons for a President: a Conversation with Michael Beschloss
Magazine article by William R. Ferris; Humanities, Vol. 22, January 2001
Subjects:	Beschloss, Michael R, History, Presidents, United States
...very strong presidents. By the...defer to presidents at crucial...whoever is president in the year...for, say, Benjamin Harrison, because...extent on the president. Grant suffered...look back on presidents in terms...letting the United States go undefended...

Counting American Presidents
Magazine article by S.F. Bailey; Contemporary Review, Vol. 264, May 1994
Subjects:	Presidents--Term of office, United States--Politics and government
...American presidents. by S...forty-first president of the United States, or the...was elected president and served...Republican Benjamin Harrison, who served...list the presidents by entry...grandfather of Benjamin Harrison...

All the President's Power
Magazine article by Thomas E. Woods Jr.; American Conservative, Vol. 5, January 30, 2006
Subjects:	Bush, George W, Electronic eavesdropping, Hayes, Rutherford B (1822-93), Political power, Presidency, Presidents, Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919), Surveillance of citizens, United States, Warrants
...among American presidents. Many Americans...Republican president, was only...report on the state of the country...Congress and the president when George...declared the United States neutral in...ratified the presidents decision...term) six, Benjamin Harrison four, Cleveland...intervened in the United Mine Workers...

President and Accounted For
Magazine article by Glenn Speer; Book, September 2000
Subjects:	Book selection--Statistics, Presidents--Biography
President and Accounted For...Americas forty-two presidents, BOOK selects...filled the office of president of the United States. Their biographies...selection for each president appears in the...revolutionary generation of presidents is rounded out...and Secretary of State. Paul C. Nagels...

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Military Often Part of President's Life; Only Washington Leads Troops into Conflict as Chief Executive
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 5, 2008
Subjects:	President of the United States--Military aspects, Soldiers--Military aspects, Taylor, Zachary
...consecutive presidents have not...of the six presidents from William...Roosevelt. President Truman...politics. Three presidents were career...Arthur, Benjamin Harrison and William...war: "The United States is not a...

Historic Houses on James River: Plantations Linked to Many Presidents
Newspaper article by Tom Yorke; The Washington Times, January 23, 1997
Subjects:	Harrison, William Henry
...Williamsburg. Two presidents were born...William Henry Harrison, the ninth president, was born...president, Benjamin Harrison, Williams...house in the United States. * Thomas...the third president and founder...first 10 presidents lived in...

Signers Answer the Call to Serve
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 4, 2002
Subjects:	Harrison, Benjamin, Jefferson, Thomas
...grandson were presidents). Much...Benjamin Harrison was part...William Henry Harrison, was the ninth president of the United States, although...pneumonia. Benjamin Harrisons...president. Harrison began his...rest of the state wavered...

All the Presidents Pooches
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 7, 2008
...claimed that the president had sent a...Every U.S. president dating back...some wise presidents have allowed...Pennsylvania Avenue, Benjamin Harrison, the twenty-third president, kept a goat...President of the United States, in top hat...

President's 360 Guests Honor S. Africa's Mbeki
Newspaper article by Ann Geracimos; The Washington Times, May 23, 2000
Subjects:	South Africa
Presidents 360 guests honor...South African President Thabo Mbeki...administrations largest state dinners and...Africa and the United States, an apparent...B. Price, president and CEO, National...assistant to the president and director...Rasethaba, state information...general of the United States; Susan Rice...

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Harrison, Benjamin , President of the United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HARRISON, BENJAMIN , President of the United States 1833 1901, 23d President of the United States (1889 93), b. North...1852; grandson of William Henry Harrison . After reading law in Cincinnati...

Presidents of the United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES (table) Presidents of the United States President Political Party Dates in...Johnson William Henry Harrison Whig 1841 John Tyler John...1885 Mar., 1889) Benjamin Harrison Republican 1889...

United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...first effective state legislation...but similar state and national...reform. The Presidents of the late...Democratic President since before...Under President Benjamin Harrison the Sherman...Caribbean. The United States established...

Harrison, William Henry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY 1773 1841, 9th President of the United States (Mar. 4 Apr. 4...co., Va.; son of Benjamin Harrison (1726? 1791) and grandfather of Benjamin Harrison (1833 1901...

Foster, John Watson
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Russia (1880 81), and to Spain (1883 85), Foster was (1892 93) Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison. He represented (1893) the United States in the arbitration of the Bering Sea Fur-Seal Controversy (see under Bering...

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