Benjamin Harrison

This article is about the US President. There is also an article for his great-grandfather Benjamin Harrison V who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Benjamin Harrison

Order: 23rd President

Term of Office: March 4, 1889 - March 4, 1893

Followed: Grover Cleveland

Succeeded by: Grover Cleveland

Date of Birth August 20, 1833

Place of Birth: North Bend. Ohio

Date of Death: March 13, 1901

Place of Death: Indianapolis, Indiana

Wife: Caroline Lavinia Harrison

First Ladies: Caroline Lavinia Harrison
Mary Harrison (daughter)

Occupation: lawyer

Political Party: Republican

Vice President: Levi P. Morton

Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 - March 13, 1901) was the 23rd (1889-1893) President of the United States.

Biography

A grandson of President William Henry Harrison, Benjamin was born in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio. He attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he was a member of the fraternity Phi Delta Theta, and graduated in 1852. He studied law in Cincinnati then moved to Indianapolis in 1854. He was admitted to the bar and became reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of the State.

Harrison served in the Union Army during the Civil War, brevetting as a brigadier general, and mustering out in 1865. While in the field in October 1864 he was re-elected reporter of the State supreme court and served four years. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1876. He was appointed a member of the Mississippi River Commission in 1879, and elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, where he served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1887. He was chairman of the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Forty-seventh Congress) and Committee on Territories (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses).

Harrison was elected President of the United States in 1888, inaugurated on March 4, 1889, and served until March 4, 1893. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892. He served as an attorney for the Republic of Venezuela in the boundary dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain in 1900. Harrison died in 1901 in Indianapolis, and is interred in Crown Hill Cemetery.

Supreme Court appointments

David Josiah Brewer - 1890
Henry Billings Brown - 1891
George Shiras, Jr - 1892
Howell Edmunds Jackson - 1893

Significant events during presidency

Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
McKinley Tariff (1890)
Ocala Demands (1890)

U.S. presidential election, 1888
U.S. presidential election, 1892

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Inaugural Address

Preceded by:
Grover Cleveland

Presidents of the United States

Succeeded by:
Grover Cleveland

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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Benjamin Harrison or a senator named C. D.Credit: Library of Congress.		Spoils system, portraying Benjamin Harrison as mannequin.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Benjamin Harrison with "U.S. Peace Commission Dove Cot" hat.Credit: Library of Congress.		Tombstone of Benjamin Harrison, Indinapolis [sic] Ind.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Setting up exercises at the U.S. Army chaplain school. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.Credit: Library of Congress.		Catholic chaplains saying mass at the U.S. Army chaplain school. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Students in dress formation. U.S. Army chaplain school at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.Credit: Library of Congress.		Taking an examination in graves registration at the chaplain school. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Chaplain school students in dress formation. U.S. Army chaplain school, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.Credit: Library of Congress.		Officers Third Inft., O.N.G., Maneuver Camp, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Sept. 1910.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speeches: Benjamin Harrison

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	When the centennial of the institution of the judicial department, by the organization of the Supreme Court, shall have been suitably observed, as I trust it will be, our nation will have fully entered its second century.
		The argument was made, as now, that its benefits inured to particular classes or sections.
		At least until the good offices of kindness and education have been fairly tried the contrary conclusion can not be plausibly urged.
		An unlawful expedient can not become a permanent condition of government.
		Our existing laws have been in their administration an unimpressive and often an unintelligible form.
		There are men of all races, even the best, whose coming is necessarily a burden upon our public revenues or a threat to social order.
		We have a just right to expect that our European policy will be the American policy of European courts.
		That which a sense of justice restrains us from seeking they may be reasonably expected willingly to forego.
		But having fairly obtained them by methods and for purposes entirely consistent with the most friendly disposition toward all other powers, our consent will be necessary to any modification or impairment of the concession.
		Persistent importunity will not, therefore, be the best support of an application for office.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression: Benjamin Harrison

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Benjamin Harrison

Anagrams: Benjamin Harrison

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-h-i-i-j-m-n-n-n-o-r-r-s"
	-5 letters: inharmonies.
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Alternative Orthography: Benjamin Harrison

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 6E 6A 61 6D 69 6E 48 61 72 72 69 73 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 006E 006A 0061 006D 0069 006E 0048 0061 0072 0072 0069 0073 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
benjamin harrison	90
fort benjamin harrison	35
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Benjamin Harrison

Definition: Benjamin Harrison