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Politics was in Benjamin Harrison's blood. His great-grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence and his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was the ninth president of the United States. Harrison, a leading Indiana lawyer, became a Republican Party champion, even taking a leave from the Civil War to campaign for Lincoln. After a scandal-free term in the Senate -- no small feat in the Gilded Age -- the Republicans chose Harrison as their presidential candidate in 1888. Despite losing the popular vote, he trounced the incumbent, Grover Cleveland, in the electoral college. In contrast to…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2013Benjamin Harrison : The American Presidents SeriesHolt & Company, Henry · 9781466860810
- Other · English · 2005Times · 206 pages · 9780805069525
Politics and governmentPresidentsBiographyHarrison, benjamin, 1833-1901Presidents, united statesUnited states, politics and government