Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893, elected after conducting one of the first “front-porch” campaigns by delivering short speeches to delegations ...
Nov 06, 2019 · Benjamin Harrison was elected during the late 1800s, at a time when high tariffs had helped build a considerable budgetary surplus. …
Mar 16, 2022 · Although his linage suggested American political royalty, Benjamin Harrison was born on a humble farm south of Cincinnati in North Bend, Ohio on Aug. 20, 1833. He was the son of John Scott Harrison and grandson of William Henry Harrison. Benjamin attended Miami University and graduated with ...
Benjamin Harrison. 23rd President of the US, 1889-93. Birthplace: North Bend, OH Location of death: Indianapolis, IN Cause of death: Pneumonia Remains: Buried, Crown Hill Cemeter. Military service: Union Army (US Civil War, Brig. Gen.) The twenty-third president of the United States, born at North Bend, near Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 20th of August 1833 ...
Hallmarks of Harrison's administration included 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.
1888 United States presidential electionNomineeBenjamin HarrisonGrover ClevelandPartyRepublicanDemocraticHome stateIndianaNew YorkRunning mateLevi P. MortonAllen G. ThurmanElectoral vote2331684 more rows
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington all became states in November 1889. The following July, Idaho and Wyoming were also admitted.
March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893Benjamin Harrison / Presidential term
The first Democrat elected after the Civil War in 1885, our 22nd and 24th President Grover Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later (1885-1889 and 1893-1897).
Cleveland is the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office....Grover ClevelandIn office March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1889Vice PresidentThomas A. Hendricks (Mar–Nov 1885) None (1885–1889)Preceded byChester A. ArthurSucceeded byBenjamin Harrison33 more rows
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Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893, elected after conducting one of the first “front-porch” campaigns by delivering short speeches to delegations that visited him in Indianapolis.
The Harrison family of Virginia is an American political family, of the Commonwealth of Virginia, whose descendants include a Founding Father of the United States, Benjamin Harrison V, and three U. S. presidents: William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln.
Harrison inherited several slaves. As the first governor of the Indiana Territory, he unsuccessfully lobbied Congress to legalize slavery in Indiana.
With the assassination of President William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the 26th and youngest President in the Nation's history (1901-1909).
“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.” “We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”
For other people with the same name, see Benjamin Harrison (disambiguation). Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893.
Harrison was a grandson of U.S. President William Henry Harrison and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Virginia planter who signed the Declaration of Independence and succeeded Thomas Nelson, Jr. as governor of Virginia.
His speech was brief—half as long as that of his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, whose speech remains the longest inaugural address of a U.S. president. In his speech, Benjamin Harrison credited the nation's growth to the influences of education and religion, urged the cotton states and mining territories to attain the industrial proportions of the eastern states and promised a protective tariff. Of commerce, he said, "If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their legal obligations and duties, they would have less call to complain of the limitations of their rights or of interference with their operations." Harrison also urged early statehood for the territories and advocated pensions for veterans, a call that met with enthusiastic applause. In foreign affairs, Harrison reaffirmed the Monroe Doctrine as a mainstay of foreign policy, while urging modernization of the Navy and a merchant marine force. He gave his commitment to international peace through noninterference in the affairs of foreign governments.
Harrison attended a grand, three-day centennial celebration of George Washington's inauguration in New York City on April 30, 1889 , and made the following remarks "We have come into the serious but always inspiring presence of Washington. He was the incarnation of duty and he teaches us today this great lesson: that those who would associate their names with events that shall outlive a century can only do so by high consecration to duty. Self-seeking has no public observance or anniversary."
Civil service reform was a prominent issue following Harrison's election. Harrison had campaigned as a supporter of the merit system, as opposed to the spoils system. Although some of the civil service had been classified under the Pendleton Act by previous administrations, Harrison spent much of his first months in office deciding on political appointments. Congress was widely divided on the issue and Harrison was reluctant to address the issue in hope of preventing the alienation of either side. The issue became a political football of the time and was immortalized in a cartoon captioned "What can I do when both parties insist on kicking?" Harrison appointed Theodore Roosevelt and Hugh Smith Thompson, both reformers, to the Civil Service Commission, but otherwise did little to further the reform cause.
Harrison unsuccessfully ran for governor of Indiana in 1876. The Indiana General Assembly elected Harrison to a six-year term in the U.S. Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1887. A Republican, Harrison was elected to the presidency in 1888, defeating the Democratic incumbent, Grover Cleveland.
This legislation resulted from a bipartisan desire to initiate reclamation of surplus lands that had been, up to that point, granted from the public domain, for potential settlement or use by railroad syndicates. As the law's drafting was finalized, Section 24 was added at the behest of Harrison by his Secretary of the Interior John Noble, which read as follows:
After understudying Judge Bellamy Storer of Cincinnati, Benjamin was able to gain admission into Ohio’s Bar in 1854. Two years prior to that, he had spent two years at the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. After passing the bar, Harrison proceeded to practicing law in John H. Ray’s firm.
Born in North Bend, Ohio (on August 20, 1833), Benjamin Harrison pursued a career in law and became a renowned attorney in Indianapolis. He also fought for the Union during the American Civil War, attaining the rank of brevet brigadier general in 1865.
Benjamin Harrison: 6 Major Achievements. From 1889 to 1893, Benjamin Harrison served as our nation’s 23 rd president and commander-in-chief. It was not the first time a Harrison held the White House Office. About half a century prior to Benjamin Harrison’s election, his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was elected as the ninth president ...
After the Fort Sumter attack ushered in the American Civil War, Benjamin Harrison responded immediately to the Union’s call for volunteers. Harrison, 29, played a crucial role in recruiting volunteers to form a regiment in the Union’s army. Starting from the rank of captain and company commander, he was promoted to colonel in August 1862.
Compared to greats like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison is generally considered a pedestrian U.S. president at best. His White House tenure was miles from extraordinary.