"President" Benjamin HARRISON

August 20, 1833-March 13, 1901

• BIRTH: August 20, 1833, North Bend, Ohio

• MARRIAGE: 1853

• MARRIAGE: April 1896

• FACTS: Benjamin Harrison was a Civil War general and a Republican senator from Indiana before defeating incumbent Grover Cleveland in the 1888 presidential election. His presidency was undistinguished, but his family tree was not: Harrison's great-grandfather was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; his grandfather was William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States; and his father was a congressman from Ohio. In a try for a second term, Harrison was defeated by Grover Cleveland in a rematch of their 1888 race.
  Harrison's first wife, Caroline, died less than a month before Harrison lost his re-election bid.
  He was the 23rd president.
  SOURCE: Who2.com

• DEATH: March 13, 1901, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana

                             "President" William Henry HARRISON V 
|John Scott HARRISON|
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|--"President" Benjamin HARRISON
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|Elizabeth Ramsey IRWIN|
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