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… better than they were here one hundred years ago. … Benjamin Harrison …
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… First Lady Caroline Harrison Vice President Levi P. Morton Secretary of State … Jeremiah M. Rusk (1889–1893) Secretary of the Navy Benjamin F. Tracy (1889–1893) Secretary of War Redfield …
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… B. Spetter … Although stiff and formal with acquaintances, Benjamin Harrison opened up with his family. During his one term as …
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… Allan B. Spetter … Benjamin Harrison was born in 1833 in North Bend, Ohio, to a prominent …
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… since Lincoln pursued a more active foreign agenda than Benjamin Harrison. Historians have long debated the extent of …
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… Allan B. Spetter … Coffee-table history books depict Benjamin Harrison as a lightweight puppet of political party bosses. …
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… the candidacy of Senator James G. Blaine of Maine in 1884, Benjamin Harrison carefully walked the middle ground. Refusing to put …
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… Allan B. Spetter … Benjamin Harrison came to the presidency with little executive …
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… Allan B. Spetter … Although Harrison never managed to put his stamp on the office and … first forest reserve located in Yellowstone, Wyoming. … … Benjamin Harrison: Domestic Affairs …
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… … At noon on April 22, 1889, just a few weeks after Harrison’s inauguration, a gunshot signaled the opening of … one of the largest folk movements in world history. … … Benjamin Harrison: The American Franchise …
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… Allan B. Spetter … Benjamin Harrison, the last Civil War general to serve as President, …
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… William Freehling … Tragedy haunted William Henry Harrison's family. Of the ten children born to William and … Whig Congressman John Scott Harrison, was the father of Benjamin Harrison, who would become America's twenty-third …
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… Caroline Lavinia Harrison was not pleased with her new living quarters. … publicity she and her family garnered in the press. When Benjamin Harrison was elected President in 1888, Caroline was …
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… William Freehling … More than once, William Henry Harrison referred to himself as a "Child of the Revolution." … of Independence bears the signature of William's father, Benjamin, who served three terms as governor of Virginia. …
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… William Freehling … William Henry Harrison served the shortest time of any American … the first President to die in office. Harrison's grandson, Benjamin Harrison, would become President of the United …
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… Benjamin Franklin Tracy was born in 1830 near Owego, New … Appeals, a post he held for one year. In 1888, President Benjamin Harrison made Tracy his secretary of the Navy. During his …
Oral History Interviews
… The Kennedy seat in the Senate was filled by Senator [Benjamin] Smith, so it was rumored that Senator Kennedy would … just seemed wrong. It was not that it was ignored, but Harrison [Pete] Williams, a Democrat from New Jersey, had a …
Presidential Speeches
… President Harrison issues a Presidential Proclamation commemorating the … prayer and thanksgiving on that day. Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, …
Oral History Interviews
… to the Justice Department--This is under Carter, under [Benjamin] Civiletti--and said, "We don't want to screw up … Knott Please straighten us out. Wides Well, Senator [Harrison] Williams of New Jersey had been convicted and left …