Harrison was the son of John Scott Harrison, a farmer, and Elizabeth Irwin Harrison and grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison (elected 1840). In 1852 he graduated with distinction from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the following year he married Caroline Lavinia Scott ...
Depew dropped out at the behest of New York Republican bossThomas C. Platt, who preferred Benjamin Harrison, a Civil Warbrigadier generaland grandson ofWilliam Henry Harrison, ninth president of theUnited States. The added weight of Blaine’s endorsement sealed Harrison’s nomination. New York ban...
1775 - The first American society for the abolition of slavery is organised by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. April 14, 1988: Soviet Union agrees to withdraw from Afghanistan Benjamin Rush, a physician and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, noted, "Without virtue there can be no...
Today we are talking about Benjamin Harrison. His family name may sound familiar. That is because he was the grandson of President William Henry Harrison. That situation is unique in U.S. history so far. Harrison played an unusually activeroleas president at a time when most chief executives...
Henry Labouchere , a fellow Liberal MP, responded by saying that he "did not object to the old man always having a card up his sleeve, but he did object to his insinuating that the Almighty had placed it there." (41) More than a million votes were cast in the 1868 General ...
Letter: Sir Henry Clinton to Lord George Germain, British Secretary of State: "I may venture to assert that there are few men in South Carolina who are not either our prisoners or in arms with us" In May 1780 Clinton had paroled the Patriot militia to their homes. When he writes this...
Henry Ward Beecher against charges of adultery. He later went on to serve briefly as a justice of the New York Court of Appeals in 1881–82. In 1889 Tracy was appointed secretary of the Navy by Pres. Benjamin Harrison. During his four years in that post, Tracy accelerated the naval ...