General information

Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
President order: 23
Republican
Born in Ohio
Sworn in on 3/4/1889
Age at inauguration: 55
1 term

Biography

Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the 
United States (1889-1893). Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, 
was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually
 becoming a prominent politician there. During the American Civil War, he served as a
 Brigadier General in the XX Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. After the war he 
unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of Indiana, and was later appointed to the 
U.S. Senate from that state.


Early life:
The Harrisons were among the First Families of Virginia, with their presence in the
 New World dating back to the arrival of an Englishman, named Benjamin Harrison, at 
Jamestown, Virginia in 1630. The future president Benjamin was born on August 20, 1833,
 in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, as the second of eight children of John Scott 
Harrison (later a U.S. Congressman from Ohio) and Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin. Benjamin was 
a grandson of President William Henry Harrison and great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison 
V, former Virginia governor and signer of the Declaration of Independence.Harrison was
 seven years old when his grandfather was elected President, but he did not attend the 
inauguration.Although Harrison's family was old and distinguished, he did not grow up 
in a wealthy household, as most of John Scott Harrison's farm income was expended on 
his children's education. Despite the meager income, Harrison's boyhood was enjoyable,
 with much of it spent outdoors fishing or hunting.

Marriage and family:
While at Farmer's College, Harrison met Caroline Lavinia Scott, the daughter of the 
University's president, John Witherspoon Scott, a Presbyterian minister.On October 20,
 1853, they married in Oxford, Ohio, with Caroline's father performing the ceremony.The
 Harrisons had two children, Russell Benjamin Harrison (August 12, 1854 – December 13,
 1936), and Mary "Mamie" Scott Harrison McKee (April 3, 1858 – October 28, 1930).

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Died: 13 March 1901 Best Known As: President of the United States
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