Benjamin Harrison (23)

Both my grandfather and great grandfather figured prominently in US history.

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I didn’t like or trust the electric lights installed in the White House.

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I had the first billion dollar budget.

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Granpa’s Grandson

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Kid Gloves

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The Minority President

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Little Ben

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Centennial President

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Billion Dollar President

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The White House Ice Chest

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Grandpa’s hat fits him

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Rejuvenated Republican

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Pious Moonlight Dude

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Human Iceberg

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Front Porch

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“I want it understood that I am the grandson of nobody.”

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“I believe that every man should stand on his own merits.”

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“So high a degree of prosperity and so general a diffusion of the comforts of life were never before enjoyed by our people.”

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“Great lives never go out; they go on.”

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Sherman anti-trust-silver purchase Acts

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Johnstown, Wounded Knee

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DAR formed

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Marries his niece-wife’s death

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Naismith basketball

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Annex Hawaii

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Venezuela

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He was a short stocky man, about 5,6 one of our shortest presidents

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He was a dignified man who believed in protective tariffs. He was associated with big business interests, despite his passage of the Sherman Anti-trust Act.

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He had hoped for the annexation of Hawaii which Cleveland nixed his second term.

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Newspapers described him as calm, cool, deliberate, polished, candid, dignified and strong, one person described his handshake as being one with a “wilted petunia”.

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His birthplace was destroyed by fire.

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He was the only president from a family of 13 children.

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His wife, Caroline Lavinia Scott, was only the second to die while the president was in office (Tyler’s was first.) This marriage produced two children, 1 boy and 1 girl.

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He was the second president (Filmore was the first) to remarry after his presidential term, when he married Mary Scott Lord Dimmick while he was in his sixties, -oldest remarriage of a president. There was mild scandal because Mary was the niece of his irst wife and a widow herself. This marriage produced 2 more child, a girl.

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He attended a local school, North Bend Ohio, Cary’s Academy. He was educated in a log schoolroom. He did have some private tutoring.

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He went to Miami of Ohio University graduating 4th in his class. He studied law and became a lawyer.

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He had children by both wives.

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His second wife was the longest lived wife of a presidentwho died in 1948 at the age of 89. This record stood till Rosalynn Carter died in 96, followed by Nancy Reagan who died in 94, Betty Ford who died in 93, and Barbara Bush, who died at 92. These were the wives of presidents 38, 39, 40, and 41, and a string of long lives first ladies. ("*Note that is not in the same order a the names listed, Carter was 39

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His law partner, William Wllace, was the son of David Wallace-governor of Indiana-and the brother of Lew Wallace, a Union Major general and governor of new Mexico who later wrote the book, “Ben Hur”. Their firm was very successful, specializing in divorce cases as Indiana had a very liberal divorce policy.

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In 1856 he campaigned for John C. Fremont, the first Republican presidential candidate.

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He was elected city attorney, Indianapolis. he became an Indiana Supreme Court reporter and was a court crier.

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He formed another law firm with William Pinkney Fishback.

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He was a Union brigadier general in the Civil War. He started in 1862 as a second lieutenant , 70th Indiana Infantry. He was the sixth of seven presidents to have served in the Civil War-the last general.

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His regiment spent 15 months in Ky. and Tenn. In 1864 He had a had infection which forces him to wear kid golves for the protection of his hands. This luxury cost him votes and popularity among the working class. He marches through Georgie en route to join Sherman who was well ahead. He suffered with Scarlet Fever bedridden for several weeks wile in Narrowsburg NY. He delivered the Eulogy at Camp Services held in honor of slain president Lincoln at Goldsboro.

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He was the defense attorney in the Milligan Case not for Milligan, but for the government. Lambdin P. Milligin was a member of the subversive Knights of the Golden Circle, (Password Nu-oh-lac, Calhoun backwards) was tried for conspiracy in 1864 and sentenced to be hanged, but sentence was commuted to life. later, in a Supreme Court case, the landmark decision, “Ex part Milligan,” ruled that the military commission and no jurisdiction and Milligan was released. Milligan brought suit for 100,000 against 22 persons involved and Grant appointed Harrison to defend, Milligan won the suit, but was only awarded damages of $5.

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He campaigned for Garfield and Arthur in 1880.

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An unreconstructed Southerner tried to shoot him during a speech in Bloomington II after a speech. The gun misfired.

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He joined and became involved in the Presybyterian Church.

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He lost an election for governor of Indiana to James D. “Blue Jeans” Williams in an election that was so close, the results weren’t known till three dats after the election Hayes appointed him to the Mississippi River Commission.

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His father was a Whig activist and the was the grandson of former president of William H. Harrison.

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His great grandfather and he were both named Benjamin, and the former was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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He won a seat in the Senate in 1881 and declined a post on Garfield’s cabinet.

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The democrats had gained control of the state legislature and gerrymandered the districts; this resulting in Harrison losing his bid for reelection to the Senate.

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He campaigned for the presidency in 1888 with the line: “I am a dead statesman, but I am a living and a rejuvenated Republican.” The term “Rejuvenated Republican” became a slogan for his backers.

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John Sherman of Ohio led on the first ballot, but Harrison won the nomination on the 8th ballot.

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He lost the popular election by more than 110,000 votes, (some estimates as high as 900,000) but won the electoral tally, 233 to 168, the votes from NY were pivotal in Harrison’s victory. His wife made a WH greenhouse. Harrison became the only presinde thwo represented Indiana.

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After his term he attended Cleveland’s inauguration.

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He resumed his practice in Indianapolis and built one of the best and most successful practices in the country, arguing several cases before the Supreme Court.

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He was the first former president to become a law professor (gave a series of lectures at Stanford U.) the only other was Taft.

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In 1896 he refused to seek the Republican nomination. He stated: “There has never been hour since I left the White House that I have felt a wish to return to it.”

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His son and daughter refused to attend his remarriage in 1896 because his finacee was his dead wife’s niece .

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His book, “This Country is Ours,” was published by Scribner in NY, and translated into Spanish as well.

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He argued the Venezuelan boundary case against Great Britain during Cleveland’s second term before an international tribunal of arbitration. Venezuela won most of its claims.

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He visited and toured Europe with his wife.

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McKinley appointed him to the Court of Arbitration at the Hague Conference on Peace; but Harrison wasn’t called upon to act.

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He died of pneumonia in Mar. 1901. His last words: “Are the doctors here? Doctor, my lungs.”

Vice President: Levi P. Morton (the only VP to die on his birthday-in 1920 at the age of 96)

Attorney General: William henry Harrison Miller, Secretary of State: James G. Blaine (Only sec’y of state to serve under three presdents- Garfield, Arthur, and Harrison)

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He attended the celebration of Washington’s inauguration centennial.

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In November of 1889 North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington were admitted as the 39, 40, 41, and 42nd states to join the Union. Idaho and Wyoming would become 43 and 44 later.

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Electric lighting was installed in the White House in 1889. Irwin “Ike” Hood installed the system and remained at the White House for 42 years mostly as chief usher. In his memoirs “Forty-two Years in the White House,” he wrote: “The Harrison family were afraid to turn the lights on and off for fear of getting a shock.

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The Samoan treaty gave Great Britain, the US, and Germany joint control of the Samoan Islands for purposes of refueling.

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He issued several proclamations against exploiting Bering Sea for furbearing animal hunting. England was very angry.

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He vetoed 44 bills-25 were pocket vetoes.

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The Oklahoma Territory was the last territory established in the continental US. This was followed by the FIRST movement of settlers into Oklahoma, but it was NOT the sooner rush that came later.

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The World’s Columbian Exposition was planned and proclaimed to celebrate the quadricentennial of Columbus’ discovery of America. It did not actually open until May 1893-during Cleveland’s term.

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He signed the Sherman-Anti-Trust Act. (Be careful of this it crosses three administrations but two are Cleveland, and it was finally repealed under Cleveland during his second term which followed Harrisons’s ONLY term.) It declared: “every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared illegal.

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He signed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. This required the purchase of 4.5 million ounces of silver each month by the treasury dept..

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He established the Sequoia and Yosemite National parks.

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He signed the McKinley Tariff which raised tariffs nearly 50 percent.

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The 1890 census gave the US population as 62.9 million.

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His 51st Congress was nicknamed the “Billion Dollar Congress,” as the budget totaled slightly over a billion dollars for the first time.

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In his third state of the Union he practically asked congress to declare war on Chile. Two American sailors were killed and 17 injured when attacked by a mob in Valparaiso. Chile later apologized and paid 75,000 to heirs of the dead and injured.

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The administration lost 75 seats-and the House-in the mid-term elections.

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The DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) was established and Mrs.Harrison was its first president.

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He signed a law enacting the Chinese Exclusion act for 10 more years.

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In June 1892 he sent 2000 troops to Idaho. A lockout of 3000 striking miners in the Coeur d’Alene mining district began Apr. 1. Several miners were killed in subsequent violence.

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Veterans of the Indian Wars were granted a $8 per month pension.

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He ordered a 20-day quarantine of vessels from cholera ports. Cholera was brought to New York by the Hamburg-American steamship, Moravia. Twenty-two of the 385 passengers died on the voyage.

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He opened millions of acres of former Indian Reservations to settlement.

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Mrs.Harrison died months before he left office-on the campaign trail for his reelection.

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He issued proclamation of amnesty to Mormons who gave uo polygamy.

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He submitted annexation of the Hawaii treaty to the Senate.

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Only his last veto was overridden.

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International copyright act, and diplomatic appropriations act was passed.

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The first actual Billion-dollar budget passed his desk on his last days in office.

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Movie Film was invented by Edison.

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The game Basketball is invented by Prof. Naismith, a Canadian, for Boston YMCA.

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Nellie Bly set a record travelling around the world in 72 days.

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The Eiffel Tower was dedicated at a Paris World’s fair.

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Brazil proclaims itself a republic.

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