Benjamin Harrison

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Biography

A grandson of President William Henry Harrison, Benjamin was born 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. He attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he was a member of the fraternity Phi Delta Theta, and graduated in 1852. He studied law in Cincinnati then moved to Indianapolis in 1854. He was admitted to the bar and became reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of the State.

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William Henry Harrison - August 20 - 1833 - North Bend - Hamilton County, Ohio - John Scott Harrison - Congressman - Miami University - Oxford, Ohio - Fraternity - Phi Delta Theta - 1852 - Cincinnati - Indianapolis - 1854 - Bar

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Harrison served in the Union Army during the Civil War, brevetting as a brigadier general, and mustering out in 1865. While in the field in October 1864 he was re-elected reporter of the State supreme court and served four years. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1876. He was appointed a member of the Mississippi River Commission in 1879, and elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, where he served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1887. He was chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (47th Congress) and U.S. Senate Committee on Territories (48th and 49th Congresses).

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Union Army - Civil War - Brevet - Brigadier general - 1865 - 1864 - Republican - 1876 - Mississippi River Commission - 1879 - United States Senate - March 4 - 1881 - March 3 - 1887 - U.S. Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard - 47th Congress - U.S. Senate Committee on Territories - 48th - 49th Congress

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