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  John Scott Harrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Scott Harrison (1804-1878) was an American Congressman who represented the second district of Ohio from 1853 to 1857.
John Scott was born to William Henry and Anna Symmes Harrison on October 4, 1804 at Vincennes, Indiana.
Harrison died on May 25, 1878 at his home near North Bend, Ohio and was buried in the Harrison tomb there.
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 Benjamin Harrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A grandson of President William Henry Harrison, Benjamin was born at 8:57 pm, on Tuesday August 20, 1833 in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio to John Scott Harrison (later a U.S. Congressman from Ohio) and Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin.
Harrison served in the Union Army during the Civil War, brevetting as a brigadier general, and mustering out in 1865.
Harrison was also known as the "centennial president" because his inauguration was the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington.
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 John Scott Harrison -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Scott Harrison (1804-1878) was an American (A member of the United States House of Representatives) Congressman who represented the second district of (A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region) Ohio from 1853 to 1857.
John Scott was born to William Henry and (additional info and facts about Anna Symmes) Anna Symmes Harrison on October 4, 1804 at (additional info and facts about Vincennes) Vincennes, (A state in midwestern United States) Indiana.
Harrison died on May 25, 1878 at his home near (additional info and facts about North Bend, Ohio) North Bend, Ohio and was buried in the Harrison tomb there.
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 Benjamin Harrison - Webb Summer Resident 1895-1901
Harrison, son of a congressman, grandson of a President, and great-grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, became the twenty-third President of the United States at age fifty-three.
Harrison expressed his desire not to run on numerous occasions, perplexed that his difficulties in office were often attributed to his inability to unbend enough and administrative mistakes.
Harrison felt constrained to sacrifice political opportunity to be at the side of his wife whose struggle for life would keep him close during the summer and early fall.
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 SECOND GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Scott HARRISON was born on 4 Oct 1804 in Vincennes, In..
Archibald Irwin HARRISON was born on 9 Jun 1832.
John Irwin HARRISON was born on 25 Jun 1839.
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 Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for America's 23rd president Benjamin Harrison
Harrison had the distinctions of being the only grandson of a US president to become Chief Executive, the last Civil War general to serve as president, and was the shortest of America's presidents.
Harrison first hoped to have the president's mansion expanded to better accommodate her family, having moved in her adult daughter, son-in law, grand children, and assorted extended relatives.
Harrison had been determined that the treasury surplus he inherited when he took office was bad for the economy and hurting business and his efforts to spend it were so successful it was gone and in deficit by the time the president left office.
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 Benjamin Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Scott Harrison was a farmer, and in early life cared for his own little plantation and assisted his father in the management of the family property.
She was graduated at the seminary in 1852, the same year that General Harrison took his degree at the university, and was married to him on 20 October, 1853.
Harrison is a manager of the orphan asylum in Indianapolis and a member of the Presbyterian church in that city, and until her removal to Washington taught a class in Sunday-school.
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 Benjamin Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Benjamin was the son of John Scott Harrison and Ramsey Elizabeth Irwin.
John Scott Harrison was the son of former president and Indian fighter William Henry Harrison.
Born at Oxford, Ohio, in 1832, "Carrie" was the second daughter of Mary Potts Neal and the Reverend Dr. John W. Scott, a Presbyterian minister and founder of the Oxford Female Institute.
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 Benjamin Harrison
Harrison was born to a well-known, wealthy and politically prominent Virginia family.
Harrison’s name, his dominance in Indiana laws, and membership in the new Republican Party led him to Assistant City Attorney.
Harrison’s wife had died two weeks before the election and returned to Indianapolis to his law practice.
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 Benjamin Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
His father, John Scott Harrison was the son of William Henry Harrison, the 9th President of the United States and the grandson of Benjamin Harrison of Virginia, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Harrison’s mother was Elizabeth Irwin of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania and the couple settled on the family estate on the banks of the Ohio near the mouth of the Big Miami River.
Harrison and his bride moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, which seemed to him to be a promising location for a legal practice.
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 Welcome to The American Presidency
Yet Harrison's political ineptitude was as great as his executive skill, and he contributed to the electoral repudiation that the Republicans received in 1890 and 1892.
Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, on Aug. 20, 1833.
Harrison received 233 electoral votes to Cleveland's 168; the Democrat, with the aid of majorities in Southern states where fl votes were repressed, had a plurality in the popular total of about 100,000.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Harris-tuttle to Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Beverley Randolph; grandfather of John Scott Harrison; ancestor of James Thomas Harrison; granduncle of Carter Henry Harrison; great-grandfather of Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); great-granduncle of
William Henry Harrison (1773-1841); second cousin of John Scott Harrison; second cousin once removed of Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); father of Carter Henry Harrison II; second cousin thrice removed of William Henry Harrison (1896-1990).
Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791); great-great-grandson of William Henry Harrison (1773-1841); great-grandson of John Scott Harrison; grandson of
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 Benjamin Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
President Benjamin Harrison's father was John Scott Harrison (1809-1878), the only American to be the son of one president and the father of another.
A year after Harrison's arrival in Indianapolis, William Wallace, the brother of the soldier and author Lew Wallace and the son of former Indiana governor David Wallace, had invited Ben to form a law partnership.
Harrison returned to Indianapolis a war hero, but his true forte was not as a soldier.
www.phideltatheta.org /famousphis/politics/federal/harrison.html   (1654 words)

  
 Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison VI (August 20, 1833 - March 13, 1901) was the 23rd (1889-1893) President of the United States.
A grandson of President William Henry Harrison, Benjamin was born in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio to John Scott Harrison and Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin.
When critics attacked "the billion-dollar Congress," Speaker Thomas B. Reed replied, "This is a billion-dollar country." President Harrison also signed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act "to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," the first Federal act attempting to regulate trusts.
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 PRESIDENTIAL CHILDREN: TIPPECANOE'S TEN
John's father assumed his debts and took responsibility for the care of John's widow and six children.
John Scott Harrison was the only man to be both the father and son of a President.
The body was discovered by his son, John Harrison, (some stories say that another of his sons, Benjamin Harrison, was with him) who came to the medical school on business and was horrified when he accidentally discovered the body of his father hanging by his neck at the end of a rope.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/presidents_and_first_ladies/46686   (669 words)

  
 BENJAMIN HARRISON COLLECTION, 1853-1943
Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), twenty-third President of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio, the son of John Scott Harrison and Elizabeth Irwin.
Mary Scott [Lord] Dimmick Harrison was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 1858, the daughter of Russell Farnham Lord and Elizabeth Mayhew Scott.
John Witherspoon Scott, (1800-1892) the father of Caroline Scott Harrison was a Presbyterian Minister and professor of mathematics and natural science at Miami University.
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 First Ladies' Biographical Information
John Cleves Symmes, born 21 July, 1742, Colonel of the Continental Army during American Revolution, associate justice on the New Jersey Superior Court (1778-1785), delegate from Delaware to the Continental Congress (1785-1786), Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1787), died 26 February, 1814 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
When Harrison was named Territorial Governor of Indiana in 1801, Anna Harrison moved with her children to the former French trading post of Vincennes, Indiana where her husband built the family a sturdy brick mansion they called Grouselands; it included a fortress-like wall to protect it from raids by Native American Indians.
Despite her remaining in Ohio, Anna Harrison was well-read and actively interested in the political world in which her husband now moved, avidly consuming all the political journals and newspapers she was able to obtain on the frontier.
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 LIVELY ROOTS 23rd President Benjamin Harrison-[19083]
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).
Harrison was a kindly man of stout principle who possessed a keen intellect and a phenomenal memory.
Harrison was also in much demand as a public speaker, and his series of lectures delivered at Stanford University was published in 1901 as Views of an Ex-President.
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 John Harrison --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Harrison, the son of a carpenter and a mechanic himself, became interested in constructing an accurate chronometer in 1728.
Although Anna Harrison's husband, William Henry Harrison, was the ninth president of the United States, she never lived in the White House.
Harrison, however, died after only a month in office, and Tyler became president—the first vice-president to succeed to the presidency by the death of a president.
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 Harrison Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
William Henry Harrison, his grandfather, was the first governor of the Indiana Territory, congressman, senator, and the ninth President of the United States.
His father, John Scott Harrison, was a representative from the state of Ohio.
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).
www.presidentbenjaminharrison.org /Harrison/beninfo.html   (555 words)

  
 North Bend History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Scott Harrison and North Bend were the subject of the Monday morning, Oct. 20, 2003, "The Rest of The Story" feature from syndicated radio legend Paul Harvey.
John Scott Harrison is the only man in U.S. history to be the son of a president (William Henry Harrison), and the father of a president (Benjamin Harrison).
John Tyler was the first Vice-President to become President due to the death of a President in office.
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 HARRISON, BENJAMIN - Online Information article about HARRISON, BENJAMIN
Henry Harrison (1773—1841), was ninth president of the United States.
Having failed to secure a re-election to the Senate in 1887, Harrison was nominated by the Republican party for the presidency in 1888, and defeated Grover Cleveland, the candidate of the Democratic party, receiving 233 electoral votes to Cleveland's 168.
Caroline Lavinia Scott, by whom he had a son and a daughter, and in 1896 to Mrs See also:
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 William Henry Harrison
During the War of 1812, Harrison fought a combined British and Indian force of 1,700 men in the battle at the Thames River in 1813.
While he was in the Northwestern Army, and after he was promoted to major general he showed a concern in fortifying Fort Meigs at the Maumee Rapids to withstand two sieges by the British and Indians.
In the War of 1812 Harrison had more military victories when he was given the command of the Army in the Northwest.
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 Harrison's Tomb yields some clues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Scott Harrison, a Cincinnati congressman who died in 1878, occupies a unique place in American history.
He is the only man who was son of an American president (William Henry Harrison) and father of another (Benjamin Harrison, president from 1889 to 1893).
How John Scott Harrison got to his father's tomb in North Bend is a story in itself.
www.enquirer.com /editions/1999/06/02/loc_harrisons_tomb.html   (618 words)

  
 william henry harrision   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Harrison was the only grandson of a President (William Henry Harrison) to be elected President.
John Tyler, Mar 4, 1841, Apr 4, 1841, 1840 election.
… William Henry Harrison William Henry Harrison was born in Charles County, Virginia, on February 19, 1773.
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 Benjamin Harrison
Source: Leo van de Pas Biography: Nominated for President on the eighth ballot at the 1888 Republican Convention, Benjamin Harrison conducted one of the first "front-porch" campaigns, delivering short speeches to delegations that visited him in Indianapolis.
The Democrats defeated him for Governor of Indiana in 1876 by unfairly stigmatizing him as "Kid Gloves" Harrison.
the penitentiary to make him President." Harrison was proud of the vigorous foreign policy which he helped shape.
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