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He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father. A Union Army veteran and a Republican, he defeated incumbent Grover Cleveland to win the presidency.
John Scott Harrison, Benjamin Harrison’s father, was born in Vincennes, Indiana, October 4, 1804. From 1853 to 1857, he served in the United States Congress in the House of Representatives as a Whig from Ohio.
Harrison's father, at age 51 and with a child in hand, was struck by lightning as he shut an upstairs window during a storm on July 12, 1745; he and his daughter Hannah were killed.
29 de oct. de 2009 · His father, John Harrison, was a farmer, and his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was elected as the ninth president of the United States in 1840, but died of pneumonia only one month...
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Hace 3 días · 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). In 1852 he graduated with distinction from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the following year he married Caroline Lavinia Scott ( Caroline Harrison ), with whom he had ...
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Their descendants include a Founding Father of the United States, Benjamin Harrison V, and three U. S. presidents: William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln. [a] Governors, legislators and mayors are found in the Harrison family, as well as leaders in religion, education, and medicine.
His grandfather, William Henry Harrison ("Old Tippecanoe"), was the ninth President of the United States, and his father, John Scott Harrison, served as a congressman. Born on August 20, 1833, Benjamin had a relatively comfortable rural upbringing in North Bend, Ohio.
