HARRISON
HARRISON
of the convention He was married to Elizabeth,
daughter of Col. William and Elizabeth (Church-
ill) Bassett. He died at '"Berkeley," Charles
City county, Va., in April, 1T91.
HARRISON, Benjamin, twenty third Presi- dent of the United States, was born at North Bend, Ohio, Aug. 20, 1833 ; son of John Scott and Elizabeth (Irwin) Harrison ; grandson of William Henry and Anna (Symmes) Harrison ; and great- grandson of Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence. His father was a representative from Ohio in the 33d and 34th
congresses and conducted a farm of 400 acres on
the Ohio river, near the mouth of the Big Miami,
where Benjamin was accustomed to farm work.
He attended school in a log schoolhouse and in
1848-49 at Farmers college, College Hill, near
Cincinnati, Ohio, and was graduated at Miami
university, Ohio, A.B . 1852 and A.M., 1855. He
was admitted to the bar in 1854 and practised
law in Indianapolis. 1854-89. He was reporter
of the supreme court of Indiana, 1860-62, and
again, 1864-68. He entered the vohmteer army
July 14, 1862, when he was commissioned 2d
lieutenant of Company A, 70th Indiana volun-
teers. He was promoted captain, July 22 and
colonel, Aug. 7, 1862; was in command of his
regiment to Aug. 20, 1863; of the 2d brigade, 3d
division reserve corps, to Sept. 20, 1863 ; again of
his regiment to Jan. 9, 1864; of the 1st brigade,
1st division, 11th army corps, to April 18. 1864;
of his regiment to June 29, 1864; of the 1st bri-
gade, 3d division, 20th army corps, to Sept. 23,
1864; on special recruiting service in Indiana
and in command of the 1st brigade, provisional
division, army of the Cumberland, to Jan. 16,
1865; and in command of the 1st brigade, 3d
division, 20th army corps, to June 8, 1865. He
was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers,
Jan. 33, 1865, " for ability and manifest energy
and gallantry in command of brigade." He
commanded the 70th Indiana volunteers at the
battles of Russellville, Ky., Sept. 30, 1862; Resaca,
Ga., May 13-16, 1864; Cassville, Ga., May 24,
1864; New Hope Church and Dallas, Ga., May
25-28, 1864; and at Kenesaw Mountain, June 27-
28, 1864. He commanded the 1st brigade, 3d
division, 20th army corps at the battles of Ken-
esaw Movmtain, June 29 to July 3, 1864, Peach
Tree Creek, July 20, 1864; and at the siege
of Atlanta, July 21 to Sept. 2, 1864; the 1st
brigade, Cruffs provisional division, Steedman's
provisional detachment at the battle of Nash-
ville, Tenn., Dec. 15-16, 1864, and the 1st brigade,
3d division, 20th corps at the surrender of
General Johnston at Durham Station, N.C.,
April 26, 1865. He was the unsuccessful Re-
publican candidate for governor of Indiana in
1876; was by the appointment of President Hayes
a member of the Mississippi River commis.sion,
1879-80 ; was chairman of the state delegates to
the Republican national convention of 1880, and
when his name was presented as a candidate for
President he insisted that it be withdrawn. He
canvassed the state for Garfield and declined a
cabinet appointment from the incoming Presi-
dent. In 1881 he was elected U.S. senator for a
full term, as successor to J. E. McDonald, and
was chairman of the committee on territories.
In 1888 he received the nomination of President
of the United States from the Republican na-
tional convention at Chicago, 111. He was nomi-
nated on the eighth ballot by a vote of 544, and
at the general election in November he received
5,440,216 of the popular votes to 5,538,233 for
Grover Cleveland, and at the meeting of the
electoral college in 1839 he was elected President
of the United States, receiving 233 electoral votes
to 168 for Cleveland. He was inaugurated,
March 4, 1889, and James G. Blaine of Maine was
made secretary of state; William Windom of
Minnesota secretary of the treasury; Redfield
Proctor of Vermont secretary of war; John W.
Noble of Missouri secretary of the interior; Ben-
jamin F. Tracy of New York secretary of the
navy ; Jeremiah M. Rusk of Wisconsin secretary
of agriculture; John Wanamaker of Pennsyl-
vania postmaster-general, and William H. H.
Miller of Indiana attorney-general. The changes
in his cabinet occurred in the state department
in 1892 when on June 4, Secretary Blaine resigned
and was succeeded by John W. Foster of Indiana ;
in the treasurj^ department in 1891 when upon
the death of Secretary Windom, Januai-y 29, he
was succeeded by Charles Foster of Ohio ; and in
the war department in 1891 when on the resigna-
tion of Secretary Proctor, December 5, he was
succeeded by Stephen B. Elkins of West Vir-
ginia. During his trip through the southern
states to California and return in 1890 he accom-
plished a journey of 10.000 miles from April 15 to
May 15, and made one hundred forty non-political
and patriotic addresses, which were published and
elicited praise from American and European
statesmen. President Harrison arranged for an
arbitration of the differences between the United
