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Benjamin Harrison (V) (April 5, 1726–April 24, 1791) was an American planter and revolutionary leader from Charles City County, Virginia.
His son William Henry Harrison and great-grandson Benjamin Harrison would both become President of the United States.
Harrison lived all his life at Berkeley Plantation, the Harrison family home in Virginia, and his children were born there.
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Harrison was a quiet, industrious political leader and a veteran of the Civil War (1861-1865).
Harrison sat out the first part of the Civil War, but then was commissioned colonel and commanded the 70th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which he created in 1862 at the request of Governor Oliver P. Morton.
Harrison's unit was later transferred to the army of General William Tecumseh Sherman, and in 1864, Harrison and his men fought in the bloody Atlanta campaign.
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 Benjamin Harrison
There is also an article for his great-grandfather Benjamin Harrison V who signed the Declaration of Independence.
Harrison was elected President of the United States in 1888, inaugurated on March 4, 1889, and served until March 3, 1893.
Harrison died in Indianapolis on March 13, 1901.
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 Benjamin Harrison V - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benjamin Harrison V (April 5, 1726 – April 24, 1791) was an American planter and revolutionary leader from Charles City County, Virginia.
Harrison was a representative for Surry County, Virginia (1756 - 1758) and Charles City County (1766 - 1776) to the House of Burgesses.
Harrison County, West Virginia was formed in 1784 and named in Governor Harrison's honor.
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 Benjamin Harrison
Harrison served in the Union Army during the Civil War and was appointed colonel of the 70th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
Harrison, who was known for his fighting spirit and leadership, was brevetted as a brigadier general and commanded a Brigade at Resaca, Cassville, New Hope Church, Lost Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain, Marietta, Peach Tree Creek and the Siege of Atlanta.
Harrison was also involved in a bizarre legal/medical incident that was called "The Harrison Horror." Harrison had the Ohio state legislature enact strict laws against bodysnatching after his father's body was stolen from the cemetery after his death in 1878 and sold to a medical college for dissection.
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 Benjamin Harrison
Harrison's family had long been distinguished as political leaders and he was appointed at an early age to sustain the reputation to which he had been born.
On 25 August, Governor Harrison, although not a citizen of Kentucky, was commissioned major-general of the militia of that state, and given command of a detachment that was sent to re-enforce General Hull, the news of whose surrender had not yet reached Kentucky.
In 1819 General Harrison was chosen to the senate of Ohio, and in 1822 was a candidate for congress, but was defeated on account of his vote against the admission of Missouri to the Union with the restriction that slavery was to be prohibited there.
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 Benjamin Harrison - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Benjamin Harrison VI (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the United States.
A grandson of President William Henry Harrison and great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, Benjamin was born at 8:57 pm, on Tuesday August 20, 1833 in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio as the second of eight children of John Scott Harrison (later a U.S. Congressman from Ohio) and Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin.
Harrison had electricity installed in the White House for the first time, but he and his wife reportedly would not touch the light switches for fear of electrocution.
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 Benjamin Harrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893.
Benjamin Harrison eventually died from influenza and pneumonia on Wednesday, March 13, 1901 and is interred in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Harrison Hall, a co-educational dormitory at Purdue University, is named after President Harrison, who served on the Board of Trustees of Purdue University from July 1895 to March 1901.
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 Brevet Brigadier-General Benjamin Harrison, U.S.V.
Harrison colonel of the Seventieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers.
Colonel Harrison's regiment was brigaded with the Seventy-ninth Ohio, the One Hundred and Second, the One Hundred and Fifth, and the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Illinois, Brigadier-General Ward commanding; and, what is extraordinary, the organization thus effected was kept unchanged to the close of the war.
Colonel Harrison participated in the Atlanta campaign, and was engaged in the battles of Resaca, where, in charging a battery, he was amongst the first to cross the parapet.
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 Presidential Avenue: Benjamin Harrison
His great-grandfather, Benjamin Harrison V, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a three-term governor of Virginia.
Shortly after his birth, Benjamin Harrison's father, John Scott Harrison, an Ohio congressman who was the only man in American history to be both son and father of a president, moved with his family to "The Point," a brick two-story farm house situated on six hundred acres of land in North Bend.
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893.
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 Family Trees of Thomas Jefferson and Other Famous Americans - pafg65 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Benjamin HARRISON was born in 1806 in Vincennes, Knox, Indiana.
Anna Tuthill HARRISON was born in 1813 in Vincennes, Knox, Indiana.
Judith HARRISON was born in 1742 in Porto Bello, Brunswick, Virginia.
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 National Park Service - The Presidents (Berkeley)
It was the birthplace and lifelong home of Benjamin Harrison V (1726-91), signer of the Declaration of Independence and three-term Governor of Virginia, as well as the birthplace and boyhood residence of his son, William Henry (1773-1841), ninth President of the United States and grandfather of Benjamin (1833-1901), the 23d President.
Benjamin Harrison IV, the signer's father, built the structure in 1726.
The unmarked grave of signer of the Declaration Benjamin Harrison is in the family cemetery, a quarter of a mile southeast of the plantation.
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 Benjamin Harrison V
Benjamin Harrison V (April 5, 1726-April 24, 1791) was a signer of the American Declaration of Independence.
He was the father of President William Henry Harrison and the great-grandfather of President Benjamin Harrison.
He lived all his life at Berkeley Plantation, the Harrison family home in Virginia, as did his son President William Henry Harrison.
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Benjamin Harrison, who was the second of six children, was born on August 20, 1833, at the home of his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, in North Bend, Ohio.
Benjamin Harrison became a loyal supporter of Abraham Lincoln and was a popular campaign speaker for the newly formed Republican Party.
Several of William Henry Harrison's famous 1840 campaign slogans were adapted for Benjamin Harrison's campaign, such as "Tippecanoe and Morton too." He was called "front porch campaigner" for giving nearly 90 impromptu speeches from his front door to enthusiastic crowds gathered in his front yard.
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 William Henry Harrison
Harrison was in fact a scion of the Virginia planter aristocracy.
Harrison was to describe himself as "a child of the Revolution".
The son, Benjamin, would survived to an advanced age would participate in the Civil War and become a future president, making John Scott the only person whose father was both a president and whose son was a president.
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 Berkeley--James River Plantations: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
The property was purchased by Benjamin Harrison III in 1691 and the brick house was constructed by 1726 for Benjamin Harrison IV and his wife Anne Carter, daughter of Robert "King" Carter.
The plantation passed to Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and three-time governor of Virginia, and then to Benjamin Harrison VI.
Benjamin Harrison V's son, William Henry Harrison was born at Berkeley and became the ninth president of the United States.
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 Benjamin Harrison Day (2003) Teaching Component - Harrison and Kerr v. Jones
Benjamin Harrison was elected Reporter of the Supreme Court in 1860.
In August of 1862, Harrison was commissioned as a colonel for the Indiana’s 70th regiment.
Benjamin Harrison, and Governor Oliver P. Morton who had commissioned him, were both Republicans and loyal to President Lincoln and supporters of Lincoln’s actions.
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 Harrison Family
His great-grandfather, Benjamin Harrison V, is a signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Virginia.
Harrison opened a law practice in Indianapolis and in 1855 joined the firm of William Wallace (later Civil War general and father of Lew Wallace).
Benjamin Harrison lived in the home until his death in 1901, except for the years he spent in Washington, D. In 1876 Harrison ran for Governor of Indiana.
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 Go home with William Henry Harrison
Harrison's Tomb overlooks the river from what was once the heart of his 2,000-acre estate.
It was inherited by Sarah Harrison in 1801.
Having been born in 1773, Harrison liked to say he "was a child of the Revolution." His father, Benjamin Harrison V, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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Benjamin V, the first of the Harrisons born in the house, was governor of Virginia three times and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Benjamin VI redesigned the home, in the process leaving his signature in the plaster wall of the next room, a drawing room.
Benjamin VI's younger brother, William Henry Harrison, earned early fame in 1811 for his fight against the Indians at Tippecanoe, in what is now Indiana, during Tecumseh's War.
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 Presidents: William Harrion
William Harrison was born on the Berkeley Plantation in Charles City County, Virginia.
Harrison grew up during the Revolutionary War, during which his home was ransacked by the British.
Harrison, despite being the oldest President when inaugurated (68), insisted on giving a one and a half hour inaugural speech—on a blustery March morning.
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 President Benjamin Harrison Home Education Classes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Benjamin Harrison’s grandfather, William Henry Harrison, the first Governor of the Indiana Territory, made treaties with the Shawnee Indians.
William Henry Harrison, grandfather of President Benjamin Harrison, was the first Governor of the Indiana Territory during its early settlement.
Benjamin Harrison V, great-grandfather of President Harrison, was one of the signers of The Declaration of Independence.
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 Benjamin Harrison Day (2003) Teaching Component
On March 4th 1889 Benjamin Harrison was inaugurated as the 23rd President of the United States; to date Harrison is the only Hoosier to become President.
The celebration will include a proclamation from the Governor's Office and a Judicial Pardon from the Supreme Court (Harrison left his office as Reporter of the Supreme Court to serve as a Colonel of the 70th Indiana in the Civil War and the court stripped him of his office).
Benjamin Harrison himself along with his friend James Whitcomb Riley will be present for the festivities.
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When Benjamin insisted on taking the high road instead and appointing the best men to the jobs, his presidency was defined.
For example, when he met Lilavati Singh, a beautiful and cultivated Christian who was stumping the States for mission support, President Harrison remarked that if she alone had been the result of all the money spent on missions, she was worth the entire sum.
History of Christianity is a survey course designed to stimulate your curiosity by providing glimpses of some of the pivotal events in the spread Christianity and sketches of great Christian figures who have significantly affected Christian history thereby shaping the history of the world.
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 Benjamin Harrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harrison's roommate at Miami University, John Alexander Anderson, became a six-term U.S. Congressman from Kansas and the second President of Kansas State University.
Benjamin Harrison was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States (1892), compiled by Charles Hedges.
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 Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was born in Berkeley Virginia in 1726.
He attended William and Mary College in Williamsburg, but was unable to complete his studies due to the sudden death of his father and two sisters in a lightening strike.
His son, William Henry Harrison, was elected ninth President of the United States.
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 A.P.E. - Major Events with Benjamin Harrison
With Secretary of State Blaine the United States had participated in conflicts around the world from the Samoan Islands to the Bering Sea.
The key provision stated that "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restrain of trade or commerce among the several states, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared illegal." This clause was very weak because it was very ambiguous - what exactly was a trust?
The law was tested in 1895 in the Knight v.
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