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Benjamin Harrison
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| | 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 |
| First Ladies: | Caroline Harrison (wife)
Mary Harrison (daughter) |
| Occupation: | lawyerA lawyer or attorney at law is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law and other legal agencies. Most countries today require professional law advisors in their judicial systems. Lawyers have m |
| Political PartyThe United States has what is for all practical purposes a two-party system, with the two largest political parties dividing a great majority of the vote between themselves in most elections. This is partly a consequence of the first-past-the-post electio: | Republican |
| Vice PresidentThe Vice President of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the United States government, the person who is "a heartbeat from the presidency. As first in the presidential line of succession, the Vice President becomes the new Presi: | Levi P. MortonLevi Parsons Morton ( May 16, 1824 May 16, 1920) was a Representative from New York and the twenty-second Vice President of the United States. Morton was born in Shoreham, Addison County, Vermont. He was a clerk in a general store in Enfield, Massachusett |
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Benjamin Harrison VI ( August 20, 1833 - March 13, 1901) was the 23rd ( 1889- 1893) President of the United States.
1 Biography
A grandson of President William Henry Harrison, Benjamin was born in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio to John Scott Harrison and Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin. 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 U.S. Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard ( 47th Congress ) and U.S. Senate Committee on Territories ( 48th and 49th Congress es).
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