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Benjamin Harrison VI (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the Twenty-third President of the United States (1889-1893).

Biography
The grandson of President William Henry Harrison, Benjamin was born at 8:57 pm, in Tuesday August 20, 1833 in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio to John Scott Harrison (later the U.S. Congressman from Ohio) and Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin. He attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he was a member of the fraternity Phi Delta Theta, (later within life, he joined an additional fraternity, Delta Chi) and graduated inside 1852. He exposed law within Cincinnati then moved to Indianapolis in 1854. He was admitted to the bar and became reporter of the decisions of the state supreme court.

Harrison served in the Union Army during the Civil War, brevetting as a brigadier general, and mustering call at 1865. When inside the field in October 1864 he was re-elected reporter of the State supreme court & served quartet years. He was an abortive Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1876. He was appointed the member of the Mississippi River Commission in 1879, and elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, where he served from either March 4, 1881, to March 4, 1887. He was chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (47th Congress) and U.S. Senate Committee on Territories (48th and 49th Congresses).

Presidency

Harrison was elective President of the United States around 1888. In a Presidential election, Harrison received 100,000 fewer popular votes than Cleveland, however carried the Electoral College 233 to 168. Although Harrison experienced manufactured there is no political bargains, his supporters got given multitudinous pledges upon his behalf. After Boss Matt Quay of Pennsylvania heard that Harrison ascribed his narrow victory to Providence, Quay exclaimed that Harrison would never understand "how close a number of men were compelled to approach...the penitentiary to make him President." He was inaugurated in March 4, 1889, and served until March 4, 1893. Harrison was likewise referred to as a "centennial president" because his inauguration was a Hundredth day of remembrance of the inauguration of George Washington.

Harrison was pleased the vigorous foreign policy which he helped shape. A 1st Pan-American Congress met in Washington, D.C. in 1889, establishing an information center which later became the Pan American Union. At the prevent of his administration, Harrison submitted to the Senate a accord to annex Hawaii; to his disappointment, President Cleveland later withdrew it.

Real appropriation bills were signed by Harrison for internal improvements, naval expansion, & subsidies for steamship lines. First except inside war, Congress appropriated the billion dollars. Once critics attacked "the billion-dollar Congress," Speaker Thomas B. Reed replied, "This is a billion-dollar country." President Harrison also signed the Sherman Antitrust Act "to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," the first Federal act attempting to regulate trusts.

A virtually all puzzling farm condition Harrison faced was a tariff issue. the high duty rates effectively got created a excess of money in the Treasury. On line-tariff advocates argued that a nimiety was hurting business. Republican leaders around Congress with success met a challenge. Representative William McKinley and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich framed a still higher tariff bill; some rates were intentionally prohibitive.

Harrison tried to produce a duty supplementary acceptable by writing inside reciprocity provisions. To match a Treasury nimiety, a duty was flushed from either imported raw sugar; sugar growers in the United States incline both cents a pound bounty in their production.

Long prior to a prevent of a Harrison Administration, the Treasury excess experienced evaporated, & prosperity seemed astir to disappear too. Congressional elections inside 1890 went stingingly against the Republicans, & persin leaders decided to abandon President Harrison although he experienced cooperated using Congress on person legislation. Notwithstanding, his person renominated him around 1892, but he was defeated by Cleveland.

He served as an lawyer for the Republic of Venezuela in a boundary dispute between Venezuela and the United Kingdom in 1900.

Fallowing he left professional, Harrison returned to Indianapolis, & married a widowed Mrs. Mary Dimmick in 1896 and fathered another girl. Harrison developed the influenza & a bad cold around February of 1901. Despite drugs of antibiotic drug & steam vapor inhalation. Harrison's problem single worsened. Benjamin Harrison VI eventually passed out of influenza and pneumonia on Wednesday, March 13, 1901 and is interred in Crown Hill Cemetery. A Benjamin Harrison Law School in Indianapolis, Indiana, was named inside his honor. Around 1944 Indiana University acquired the school & renamed it Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis.

Cabinet

Supreme Court Appointments
Harrison appointed a ensuing Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States:

David Josiah Brewer - 1890 Henry Billings Brown - 1891 George Shiras, Jr. - 1892 Howell Edmunds Jackson - 1893

Significant Events
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890) McKinley Tariff (1890) Ocala Demands (1890) Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)

States Admitted to the Union
North Dakota – November 2, 1889 South Dakota – November 2, 1889 Montana – November 8, 1889 Washington – November 11, 1889 Idaho – July 3, 1890 Wyoming – July 10, 1890

Trivia

Benjamin Harrison might be a foremost President whose voice was recorded. This recording, which was originally manufactured in the phonograph cylinder, can be accessed via a [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/mediaplay.php?id=196&admin=23 Internet]. Harrison was the go President to have on a beard patch inside professional.

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