Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States (1889–93), a moderate Republican who won an electoral majority while losing the popular vote by more than 100,000. Harrison signed into law the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), the first legisla
political bosses, Harrison’s political future was in doubt. In early June, shortly before the opening of theRepublican National ConventioninMinneapolis, Minnesota, past presidential candidateJames G. Blaineresigned as Harrison’s secretary of state in the hopes of securing the party’s nomination ...
United States presidential election of 1888 was an American presidential election held on November 6, 1888, in which Republican Benjamin Harrison defeated Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland.