Benjamin Harrison - wikipedia Benjamin Harrison For other people named Benjamin Harrison, see Benjamin Harrison ( disambiguation ). 23rd President of the United States Benjamin Harrison 23rd President of the United States In office March 4, 1889 -- March 4, 1893 Vice President Levi P. Morton Preceded by Grover Cleveland Succeeded by Grover Cleveland United States Senator from Indiana In office March 4, 1881 -- March 3, 1887 Preceded by Joseph McDonald Succeeded by David Turpie Personal details ( 1833 - 08 - 20 ) August 20, 1833 North Bend, Ohio, U.S. March 13, 1901 ( 1901 - 03 - 13 ) ( aged 67 ) Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. Cause of death Pneumonia Resting place Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. Political party Republican ( 1856 -- 1901 ) Other political affiliations Whig Party ( before 1856 ) Spouse ( s ) Caroline Scott ( m. 1853 ; d. 1892 ) Mary Scott Lord ( m. 1896 ) Children Russell Mary Elizabeth Parents John Scott Harrison ( father ) Elizabeth Ramsey ( mother ) Education Farmer 's College Miami University Profession Politician Lawyer Signature Military service Allegiance United States Service / branch United States Army Union Army Years of service 1862 -- 1865 Rank Colonel Brevet brigadier general Unit Army of the Cumberland Commands 70th Indiana Infantry Regiment 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XX Corps Battles / wars American Civil War Benjamin Harrison ( August 20, 1833 -- March 13, 1901 ) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He was a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, creating the only grandfather - grandson duo to have held the office. He was also the great - grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a founding father. Before ascending to the presidency, Harrison established himself as a prominent local attorney, Presbyterian church leader, and politician in Indianapolis, Indiana. During the American Civil War, he served in the Union Army as a colonel, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a brevet brigadier general of volunteers in 1865. Harrison unsuccessfully ran for governor of Indiana in 1876. The Indiana General Assembly elected Harrison to a six - year term in the U.S. Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1887. A Republican, Harrison was elected to the presidency in 1888, defeating the Democratic incumbent, Grover Cleveland. Hallmarks of Harrison 's administration included unprecedented economic legislation, including the McKinley Tariff, which imposed historic protective trade rates, and the Sherman Antitrust Act. Harrison also facilitated the creation of the national forest reserves through an amendment to the Land Revision Act of 1891. During his administration six western states were admitted to the Union. In addition, Harrison substantially strengthened and modernized the U.S. Navy and conducted an active foreign policy, but his proposals to secure federal education funding as well as voting rights enforcement for African Americans were unsuccessful. Due in large part to surplus revenues from the tariffs, federal spending reached one billion dollars for the first time during his term. The spending issue in part led to the defeat of the Republicans in the 1890 mid-term elections. Cleveland defeated Harrison for re-election in 1892, due to the growing unpopularity of the high tariff and high federal spending. Harrison returned to private life and his law practice in Indianapolis. In 1899 Harrison represented the Republic of Venezuela in their British Guiana boundary dispute against the United Kingdom. Harrison traveled to the court of Paris as part of the case and after a brief stay returned to Indianapolis. He died at his home in Indianapolis in 1901 of complications from influenza. Although many have praised Harrison 's commitment to African Americans ' voting rights, scholars and historians generally regard his administration as below - average, and rank him in the bottom half among U.S. presidents. Historians, however, have not questioned Harrison 's commitment to personal and official integrity. Contents 1 Family and education 2 Marriage and early career 3 Civil War 4 Post-war career 4.1 Indiana politics 4.2 United States Senator 5 Election of 1888 5.1 Nomination 5.2 Election over Cleveland 6 Presidency 1889 -- 1893 6.1 Inauguration and cabinet 6.2 Civil service reform and pensions 6.3 Tariff 6.4 Antitrust laws and the currency 6.5 Civil rights 6.6 National forests 6.7 Native American policy 6.8 Technology and naval modernization 6.9 Foreign policy 6.9. 1 Latin America and Samoa 6.9. 2 European embargo of U.S. pork 6.9. 3 Crises in Aleutian Islands and Chile 6.9. 4 Annexation of Hawaii 6.10 Cabinet 6.11 Judicial appointments 6.12 States admitted to the Union 6.13 Vacations and travel 6.14 Reelection campaign in 1892 7 Post-presidency and death 8 Historical reputation and memorials 9 See also 10 Notes 11 References 12 Sources 13 Further reading 13.1 Primary sources 14 External links Family and education Coat of Arms of Benjamin Harrison Harrison 's paternal ancestors were the Harrison family of Virginia, whose immigrant ancestor, Benjamin Harrison, arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1630. Benjamin, the future president, was born on August 20, 1833, in North Bend, Ohio, the second of Elizabeth Ramsey ( Irwin ) and John Scott Harrison 's eight children. Benjamin was also a grandson of U.S. President William Henry Harrison, the first governor of the Indiana Territory, and a great - grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Virginia planter who signed the Declaration of Independence and succeeded Thomas Jefferson as governor of Virginia. Harrison was seven years old when his grandfather was elected U.S. president, but he did not attend the inauguration. Although Harrison 's family was distinguished, his parents were not wealthy. John Scott Harrison, a two - term U.S. congressman from Ohio, spent much of his farm income on his children 's education. Despite the family 's modest resources, Harrison 's boyhood was enjoyable, much of it spent outdoors fishing or hunting. Benjamin Harrison 's early schooling took place in a log cabin near his home, but his parents later arranged for a tutor to help him with college preparatory studies. Fourteen - year - old Harrison and his older brother, Irwin, enrolled in Farmer 's College near Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1847. He attended the college for two years and while there met his future wife, Caroline `` Carrie '' Lavinia Scott, a daughter of John Witherspoon Scott, the school 's science professor who was also a Presbyterian minister. In 1850, Harrison transferred to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and graduated in 1852. He joined the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, which he used as a network for much of his life. He was also a member of Delta Chi, a law fraternity which permitted dual membership. Classmates included John Alexander Anderson, who became a six - term U.S. congressman, and Whitelaw Reid Harrison 's vice presidential running mate in 1892. At Miami, Harrison was strongly influenced by history and political economy professor Robert Hamilton Bishop. Harrison also joined a Presbyterian church at college and, like his mother, became a lifelong Presbyterian. Marriage and early career Benjamin Harrison c1850 After his college graduation in 1852, Harrison studied law with Judge Bellamy Storer of Cincinnati, but before he completed his studies, he returned to Oxford, Ohio, to marry Caroline Scott on October 20, 1853. Caroline 's father, a Presbyterian minister, performed the ceremony. The Harrisons had two children, Russell Benjamin Harrison ( August 12, 1854 -- December 13, 1936 ), and Mary `` Mamie '' Scott Harrison ( April 3, 1858 -- October 28, 1930 ). Harrison and his wife, Caroline, returned to live at The Point, his father 's farm in southwestern Ohio, while he finished his law studies. Harrison was admitted to the Ohio bar in early 1854, the same year he sold property that he had inherited after the death of an aunt for $800 and used the funds to move with Caroline to Indianapolis, Indiana. Harrison began practicing law in the office of John H. Ray in 1854 and became a crier for the federal court in Indianapolis, for which he was paid $2.50 per day. He also served as a Commissioner for the U.S. Court of Claims. Harrison became a founding member and first president of both the University Club, a private gentlemen 's club in Indianapolis, and the Phi Delta Theta Alumni Club. Harrison and his wife became members and assumed leadership positions at Indianapolis 's First Presbyterian Church. Having grown up in a Whig household, Harrison initially favored that party 's politics, but joined the Republican Party shortly after its formation in 1856 and campaigned on behalf of the Republican presidential candidate, John C. Frémont. In 1857 Harrison was elected as the Indianapolis city attorney, a position that paid an annual salary of $400. In 1858, Harrison entered into a law partnership with William Wallace to form the law office of Wallace and Harrison. Two years later, in 1860, Harrison successfully ran as the Republican candidate for reporter of the Indiana Supreme Court. Harrison was an active supporter of the Republican Party 's platform and served as Republican State Committee 's secretary. After Wallace, his law partner, was elected as county clerk in 1860, Harrison established a new firm with William Fishback that was named Fishback and Harrison. The new partners worked together until Harrison entered the Union Army after the start of the American Civil War. Civil War Brigadier General Harrison ( left ) with other commanders of the XX Corps, 1865 In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for more recruits for the Union Army ; Harrison wanted to enlist, but worried about how to support his young family. While visiting Governor Oliver Morton, Harrison found him distressed over the shortage of men answering the latest call. Harrison told the governor, `` If I can be of any service, I will go ''. Morton asked Harrison if he could help recruit a regiment, although he would not ask him to serve. Harrison recruited throughout northern Indiana to raise a regiment. Morton offered him the command, but Harrison declined, as he had no military experience. He was initially commissioned as a captain and company commander on July 22, 1862. Governor Morton commissioned Harrison as a colonel on August 7, 1862, and the newly formed 70th Indiana was mustered into Federal service on August 12, 1862. Once mustered, the regiment left Indiana to join the Union Army at Louisville, Kentucky. For much of its first two years, the 70th Indiana performed reconnaissance duty and guarded railroads in Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1864, Harrison and his regiment joined William T. Sherman 's Atlanta Campaign and moved to the front lines. On January 2, 1864, Harrison was promoted to command the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the XX Corps. He commanded the brigade at the battles of Resaca, Cassville, New Hope Church, Lost Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain, Marietta, Peachtree Creek and Atlanta. When Sherman 's main force began its March to the Sea, Harrison 's brigade was transferred to the District of Etowah and participated in the Battle of Nashville. On January 23, 1865, President Lincoln nominated Harrison to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from that date, and the Senate confirmed the nomination on February 14, 1865. He rode in the Grand Review in Washington, D.C. before mustering out on June 8, 1865. Post-war career Indiana politics While serving in the Union Army in October 1864, Harrison was once again elected reporter of the Supreme Court of Indiana, although he did not seek the position, and served as the Court 's reporter for four more years. The position was unsalaried and not a politically powerful one, but it did provide Harrison with a steady income for his work preparing and publishing court opinions, which he sold to the legal profession. Harrison also resumed his law practice in Indianapolis. He became a skilled orator and known as `` ' one of the state 's leading lawyers. ' '' In 1868 President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Harrison to represent the federal government in a civil suit filed by Lambdin P. Milligan, whose controversial wartime conviction for treason in 1864 led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case known as Ex parte Milligan. The civil case was referred to the U.S. Circuit Court for Indiana at Indianapolis, where it evolved into Milligan v. Hovey. Although the jury rendered a verdict in Milligan 's favor and he had sought hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages, state and federal statutes limited the amount the federal government had to award to Milligan to five dollars plus court costs. Benjamin Harrison Home in Indianapolis, Indiana With his increasing reputation, local Republicans urged Harrison to run for Congress. He initially confined his political activities to speaking on behalf of other Republican candidates, a task for which he received high praises from his colleagues. In 1872, Harrison campaigned for the Republican nomination for governor of Indiana. Former governor Oliver Morton favored his opponent, Thomas M. Browne, and Harrison lost his bid for statewide office. He returned to his law practice and, despite the Panic of 1873, he was financially successful enough to build a grand new home in Indianapolis in 1874. He continued to make speeches on behalf of Republican candidates and policies. In 1876, when a scandal forced the original Republican nominee, Godlove Stein Orth, to drop out of the gubernatorial race, Harrison accepted the Republican Party 's invitation to take his place on the ticket. Harrison centered his campaign on economic policy and favored deflating the national currency. He was ultimately defeated in a plurality by James D. Williams, losing by 5,084 votes out of a total 434,457 cast, but Harrison was able to build on his new prominence in state politics. When the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 reached Indianapolis, he gathered a citizen militia to make a show of support for owners and management, and helped to mediate an agreement between the workers and management and to prevent the strike from widening. When United States Senator Morton died in 1878, the Republicans nominated Harrison to run for the seat, but the party failed to gain a majority in the state legislature, which at that time elected senators ; the Democratic majority elected Daniel W. Voorhees instead. In 1879, President Hayes appointed Harrison to the Mississippi River Commission, which worked to develop internal improvements on the river. As a delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention the following year, he was instrumental in breaking a deadlock on candidates, and James A. Garfield won the nomination. United States Senator Walter Q. Gresham, Harrison 's rival within the Indiana Republican Party After Harrison led Indiana 's Republican delegation at the 1880 Republican National Convention, he was considered the state 's presumptive candidate for the U.S. Senate. He gave speeches in favor of Garfield in Indiana and New York, further raising his profile in the party. However, when the Republicans retook the majority in the state legislature, Harrison 's election to a six - year term in the U.S. Senate was threatened by Judge Walter Q. Gresham, his intra-party rival, but Harrison was ultimately chosen. After Garfield 's election as president in 1880, his administration offered Harrison a cabinet position, but Harrison declined in favor of continuing his service in the U.S. Senate. Harrison served in the Senate from March 4, 1881 to March 3, 1887 and chaired the U.S. Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard ( 47th Congress ) and the U.S. Senate Committee on Territories ( 48th and 49th Congresses ). In 1881, the major issue confronting Senator Harrison was the budget surplus. Democrats wished to reduce the tariff and limit the amount of money the government took in ; Republicans instead wished to spend the money on internal improvements and pensions for Civil War veterans. Harrison took his party 's side and advocated for generous pensions for veterans and their widows. He also supported, unsuccessfully, aid for education of Southerners, especially the children of the freedmen ; he believed that education was necessary to help the black population rise to political and economic equality with whites. Harrison opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which his party supported, as he thought it violated existing treaties with China. In 1884, Harrison and Gresham competed for influence at the 1884 Republican National Convention ; the delegation ended up supporting James G. Blaine, the eventual nominee. In the Senate, Harrison achieved passage of his Dependent Pension Bill, only to see it vetoed by President Grover Cleveland. His efforts to further the admission of new western states were stymied by Democrats, who feared that the new states would elect Republicans to Congress. In 1885 the Democrats redistricted the Indiana state legislature, which resulted in an increased Democratic majority in 1886, despite an overall Republican majority statewide. In 1887, largely as a result of the Democratic gerrymandering of Indiana 's legislative districts, Harrison was defeated in his bid for reelection. Following a deadlock in the state senate, the state legislature eventually chose Democrat David Turpie as Harrison 's successor in the U.S. Senate. Harrison returned to Indianapolis and resumed his law practice, but stayed active in state and national politics. Election of 1888 Main article : United States presidential election, 1888 Nomination Harrison -- Morton campaign poster The initial favorite for the Republican nomination was the previous nominee, James G. Blaine of Maine. After Blaine wrote several letters denying any interest in the nomination, his supporters divided among other candidates, with John Sherman of Ohio as the leader among them. Others, including Chauncey Depew of New York, Russell Alger of Michigan, and Harrison 's old nemesis Walter Q. Gresham, now a federal appellate court judge in Chicago, also sought the delegates ' support at the 1888 Republican National Convention. Blaine did not publicly endorse any of the candidates as a successor ; however, on March 1, 1888 he privately wrote that `` the one man remaining who in my judgment can make the best one is Benjamin Harrison. '' Harrison placed fifth on the first ballot, with Sherman in the lead, and the next few ballots showed little change. The Blaine supporters shifted their support among candidates they found acceptable, and when they shifted to Harrison, they found a candidate who could attract the votes of many other delegations. He was nominated as the party 's presidential candidate on the eighth ballot, by a count of 544 to 108 votes. Levi P. Morton of New York was chosen as his running mate. Election over Cleveland Results of the 1888 election Harrison 's opponent in the general election was incumbent President Grover Cleveland. Harrison reprised a more traditional front - porch campaign, abandoned by his immediate predecessors ; he received visiting delegations to Indianapolis and made over ninety pronouncements from his home town. The Republicans campaigned heavily in favor of protective tariffs, turning out protectionist voters in the important industrial states of the North. The election focused on the swing states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Harrison 's home state of Indiana. Harrison and Cleveland split these four states, with Harrison winning in New York and Indiana. Voter turnout was 79.3 %, reflecting a large interest in the campaign ; nearly eleven million votes were cast. Although Harrison received 90,000 fewer popular votes than Cleveland, he carried the Electoral College 233 to 168. Allegations were made against Republicans for engaging in irregular ballot practices ; an example was described as Blocks of Five. On October 31 the Indiana Sentinel published a letter allegedly written by Harrison 's friend and supporter, William Wade Dudley, to bribe voters in `` blocks of five '' to ensure Harrison 's election. Harrison neither defended nor repudiated Dudley, but allowed him to remain on the campaign for the remaining few days. After the election Harrison never spoke to Dudley again. Although Harrison had made no political bargains, his supporters had given many pledges upon his behalf. When Boss Matthew Quay of Pennsylvania, who was rebuffed for a Cabinet position for his political support during the convention, heard that Harrison ascribed his narrow victory to Providence, Quay exclaimed that Harrison would never know `` how close a number of men were compelled to approach... the penitentiary to make him President. '' Harrison was known as the Centennial President because his inauguration celebrated the centenary of the first inauguration of George Washington in 1789. In congressional elections, the Republicans increased their membership in the House of Representatives by nineteen seats. Presidency 1889 -- 1893 Main article : Presidency of Benjamin Harrison Inauguration and cabinet BEP engraved portrait of Harrison as President Harrison was sworn into office on Monday, March 4, 1889 by Chief Justice Melville Fuller. His speech was brief -- half as long as that of his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, whose speech holds the record for the longest inaugural address of a U.S. president. In his speech, Benjamin Harrison credited the nation 's growth to the influences of education and religion, urged the cotton states and mining territories to attain the industrial proportions of the eastern states and promised a protective tariff. Concerning commerce, he said, `` If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their legal obligations and duties, they would have less call to complain of the limitations of their rights or of interference with their operations. '' Harrison also urged early statehood for the territories and advocated pensions for veterans, a statement that was met with enthusiastic applause. In foreign affairs, Harrison reaffirmed the Monroe Doctrine as a mainstay of foreign policy, while urging modernization of the Navy and a merchant marine force. He gave his commitment to international peace through noninterference in the affairs of foreign governments. John Philip Sousa 's Marine Corps band played at the Inaugural Ball inside the Pension Building with a large crowd attending. After moving into the White House, Harrison noted, quite prophetically, `` There is only a door -- one that is never locked -- between the president 's office and what are not very accurately called his private apartments. There should be an executive office building, not too far away, but wholly distinct from the dwelling house. For everyone else in the public service there is an unroofed space between the bedroom and the desk. '' Inauguration of Benjamin Harrison, March 4, 1889. Cleveland held Harrison 's umbrella. Harrison acted quite independently in selecting his cabinet, much to the dismay of the Republican bosses. He began by delaying the presumed nomination of James G. Blaine as Secretary of State so as to preclude Blaine 's involvement in the formation of the administration, as had occurred in President Garfield 's term. In fact, other than Blaine, the only Republican boss initially nominated was Redfield Proctor, as Secretary of War. Senator Shelby Cullom 's comment symbolizes Harrison 's steadfast aversion to use federal positions for patronage : `` I suppose Harrison treated me as well as he did any other Senator ; but whenever he did anything for me, it was done so ungraciously that the concession tended to anger rather than please. '' Harrison 's selections shared particular alliances -- such as their service in the Civil War, Indiana citizenship and membership in the Presbyterian Church. Nevertheless, Harrison with these choices had alienated pivotal Republican operatives from New York to Pennsylvania to Iowa and prematurely compromised his political power and future. Harrison 's normal schedule provided for two full cabinet meetings per week, as well as separate weekly one - on - one meetings with each cabinet member. In June 1890, Harrison 's Postmaster General John Wanamaker and several Philadelphia friends purchased a large new cottage at Cape May Point for Harrison 's wife Caroline. Many believed the cottage gift appeared to be improper and amounted to a bribe for a cabinet position. Harrison made no comment on the matter until after two weeks when he said he had always intended to purchase the cottage once Caroline gave approval. On July 2, perhaps a little tardily to avoid suspicion, Harrison gave Wanamaker a check for $10,000 to pay for the cottage. Civil service reform and pensions Eastman Johnson 's portrait of Benjamin Harrison, c. 1890 -- 1900 Civil service reform was a prominent issue following Harrison 's election. Harrison had campaigned as a supporter of the merit system, as opposed to the spoils system. Although some of the civil service had been classified under the Pendleton Act by previous administrations, Harrison spent much of his first months in office deciding on political appointments. Congress was widely divided on the issue and Harrison was reluctant to address the issue in hope of preventing the alienation of either side. The issue became a political football of the time and was immortalized in a cartoon captioned `` What can I do when both parties insist on kicking ? '' Harrison appointed Theodore Roosevelt and Hugh Smith Thompson, both reformers, to the Civil Service Commission, but otherwise did little to further the reform cause. Political football Harrison quickly saw the enactment of the Dependent and Disability Pension Act in 1890, a cause he had championed while in Congress. In addition to providing pensions to disabled Civil War veterans ( regardless of the cause of their disability ), the Act depleted some of the troublesome federal budget surplus. Pension expenditures reached $135 million under Harrison, the largest expenditure of its kind to that point in American history, a problem exacerbated by Pension Bureau commissioner James R. Tanner 's expansive interpretation of the pension laws. An investigation into the Pension Bureau by Harrison 's Secretary of Interior John Willock Noble found evidence of lavish and illegal handouts under Tanner. Harrison, who privately believed that appointing Tanner had been a mistake, due to his apparent loose management style and tongue, asked Tanner to resign and replaced him with Green B. Raum. Raum was also accused of accepting loan payments in return for expediting pension cases. Harrison, having accepted a dissenting Congressional Republican investigation report that exonerated Raum, kept him in office for the rest of his administration. One of the first appointments Harrison was forced to reverse was that of James S. Clarkson as an assistant postmaster. Clarkson, who had expected a full cabinet position, began sabotaging the appointment from the outset, gaining the reputation for `` decapitating a fourth class postmaster every three minutes ''. Clarkson himself stated, `` I am simply on detail from the Republican Committee... I am most anxious to get through this task and leave. '' He resigned in September 1890. Tariff Harrison and the Billion - Dollar Congress are portrayed as wasting the surplus in this cartoon from Puck. The tariff levels had been a major political issue since before the Civil War, and they became the most dominant matter of the 1888 election. The high tariff rates had created a surplus of money in the Treasury, which led many Democrats ( as well as the growing Populist movement ) to call for lowering them. Most Republicans preferred to maintain the rates, spend the surplus on internal improvements and eliminate some internal taxes. Representative William McKinley and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich framed the McKinley Tariff that would raise the tariff even higher, including making some rates intentionally prohibitive. At Secretary of State James Blaine 's urging, Harrison attempted to make the tariff more acceptable by urging Congress to add reciprocity provisions, which would allow the president to reduce rates when other countries reduced their rates on American exports. The tariff was removed from imported raw sugar, and sugar growers in the United States were given a two cent per pound subsidy on their production. Even with the reductions and reciprocity, the McKinley Tariff enacted the highest average rate in American history, and the spending associated with it contributed to the reputation of the Billion - Dollar Congress. Antitrust laws and the currency Senator John Sherman worked closely with Harrison, writing bills regulating monopolies and monetary policy. Members of both parties were concerned with the growth of the power of trusts and monopolies, and one of the first acts of the 51st Congress was to pass the Sherman Antitrust Act, sponsored by Senator John Sherman of Ohio. The Act passed by wide margins in both houses, and Harrison signed it into law. The Sherman Act was the first Federal act of its kind, and marked a new use of federal government power. While Harrison approved of the law and its intent, his administration was not particularly vigorous in enforcing it. However, the government successfully concluded a case during Harrison 's time in office ( against a Tennessee coal company ), and had initiated several other cases against trusts. One of the most volatile questions of the 1880s was whether the currency should be backed by gold and silver, or by gold alone. The issue cut across party lines, with western Republicans and southern Democrats joining together in the call for the free coinage of silver, and both parties ' representatives in the northeast holding firm for the gold standard. Because silver was worth less than its legal equivalent in gold, taxpayers paid their government bills in silver, while international creditors demanded payment in gold, resulting in a depletion of the nation 's gold supply. Owing to worldwide deflation in the late 19th century, however, a strict gold standard had resulted in reduction of incomes without the equivalent reduction in debts, pushing debtors and the poor to call for silver coinage as an inflationary measure. The silver coinage issue had not been much discussed in the 1888 campaign and Harrison is said to have favored a bimetallist position. However, his appointment of a silverite Treasury Secretary, William Windom, encouraged the free silver supporters. Harrison attempted to steer a middle course between the two positions, advocating a free coinage of silver, but at its own value, not at a fixed ratio to gold. This failed to facilitate a compromise between the factions. In July 1890, Senator Sherman achieved passage of a bill, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, in both houses. Harrison thought that the bill would end the controversy, and he signed it into law. The effect of the bill, however, was the increased depletion of the nation 's gold supply, a problem that would persist until the second Cleveland administration resolved it. Civil rights Harrison with Secretary Blaine and Representative Henry Cabot Lodge off the coast of Maine, 1889 After regaining the majority in both Houses of Congress, some Republicans, led by Harrison, attempted to pass legislation to protect black Americans ' civil rights. Harrison 's Attorney General, William H.H. Miller, through the Justice Department, ordered the prosecutions for violation of voting rights in the South ; however, white juries often failed to convict or indict violators. This prompted Harrison to urge Congress to pass legislation that would `` secure all our people a free exercise of the right of suffrage and every other civil right under the Constitution and laws. '' Harrison endorsed the proposed Federal Elections Bill written by Representative Henry Cabot Lodge and Senator George Frisbie Hoar in 1890, but the bill was defeated in the Senate. Following the failure to pass the bill, Harrison continued to speak in favor of African American civil rights in addresses to Congress. Most notably, on December 3, 1889, Harrison had gone before Congress and stated : The colored people did not intrude themselves upon us ; they were brought here in chains and held in communities where they are now chiefly bound by a cruel slave code... when and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot ? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law ? When is that quality of influence which our form of government was intended to secure to the electors to be restored ?... in many parts of our country where the colored population is large the people of that race are by various devices deprived of any effective exercise of their political rights and of many of their civil rights. The wrong does not expend itself upon those whose votes are suppressed. Every constituency in the Union is wronged. He severely questioned the states ' civil rights records, arguing that if states have the authority over civil rights, then `` we have a right to ask whether they are at work upon it. '' Harrison also supported a bill proposed by Senator Henry W. Blair, which would have granted federal funding to schools regardless of the students ' races. He also endorsed a proposed constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court ruling in the Civil Rights Cases ( 1883 ) that declared much of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional. None of these measures gained congressional approval. National forests In March 1891 Congress enacted and Harrison signed the Land Revision Act of 1891. This legislation resulted from a bipartisan desire to initiate reclamation of surplus lands that had been, up to that point, granted from the public domain, for potential settlement or use by railroad syndicates. As the law 's drafting was finalized, Section 24 was added at the behest of Harrison by his Secretary of the Interior John Noble, which read as follows : That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the president shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof. Within a month of the enactment of this law Harrison authorized the first forest reserve, to be located on public domain adjacent to Yellowstone Park, in Wyoming. Other areas were so designated by Harrison, bringing the first forest reservations total to 22 million acres in his term. Harrison was also the first to give a prehistoric Indian Ruin, Casa Grande in Arizona, federal protection. Native American policy During Harrison 's administration, the Lakota Sioux, previously confined to reservations in South Dakota, grew restive under the influence of Wovoka, a medicine man, who encouraged them to participate in a spiritual movement called the Ghost Dance. Many in Washington did not understand the predominantly religious nature of the Ghost Dance, and thought it was a militant movement being used to rally Native Americans against the government. On December 29, 1890, troops from the Seventh Cavalry clashed with the Sioux at Wounded Knee. The members of the 7th Cavalry had come to confiscate the Sioux firearms `` for their own safety and protection ''. The slaughter began after the majority of the Sioux had peacefully turned in their firearms. The Cavalry began shooting and managed to wipe out the entire camp. The result was a massacre of at least 200 of the 297 Sioux, including many women and children ; the dead Sioux were buried in a mass grave. In reaction Harrison directed Major General Nelson A. Miles to investigate and ordered 3500 federal troops to South Dakota ; the uprising was brought to an end. Wounded Knee is considered the last major American Indian battle in the 19th century. Harrison 's general policy on American Indians was to encourage assimilation into white society and, despite the massacre, he believed the policy to have been generally successful. This policy, known as the allotment system and embodied in the Dawes Act, was favored by liberal reformers at the time, but eventually proved detrimental to American Indians as they sold most of their land at low prices to white speculators. Technology and naval modernization The USS Texas, America 's first battleship, built in 1892 During Harrison 's time in office, the United States was continuing to experience advances in science and technology. Harrison was the earliest president whose voice is known to be preserved. That thirty - six - second recording ( help info ) was originally made on a wax phonograph cylinder in 1889 by Gianni Bettini. Harrison also had electricity installed in the White House for the first time by Edison General Electric Company, but he and his wife would not touch the light switches for fear of electrocution and would often go to sleep with the lights on. Over the course of his administration, Harrison marshaled the country 's technology to clothe the nation with a credible naval power. When he took office there were only two commissioned warships in the Navy. In his inaugural address he said, `` construction of a sufficient number of warships and their necessary armaments should progress as rapidly as is consistent with care and perfection. '' Harrison 's Secretary of the Navy Benjamin F. Tracy spearheaded the rapid construction of vessels, and within a year congressional approval was obtained for building of the warships Indiana, Texas, Oregon and Columbia. By 1898, with the help of the Carnegie Corporation, no less than ten modern warships, including steel hulls and greater displacements and armaments, had transformed the United States into a legitimate naval power. Seven of these had begun during the Harrison term. Foreign policy Latin America and Samoa Harrison and Secretary of State Blaine were often not the most cordial of friends, but harmonized in an aggressive foreign policy and commercial reciprocity with other nations. Blaine 's persistent medical problems warranted more of a hands - on effort by Harrison in the conduct of foreign policy. In San Francisco, while on tour of the United States in 1891, Harrison proclaimed that the United States was in a `` new epoch '' of trade and that the expanding navy would protect oceanic shipping and increase American influence and prestige abroad. The First International Conference of American States met in Washington in 1889 ; Harrison set an aggressive agenda including customs and currency integration and named a bipartisan delegation to the conference, led by John B. Henderson and Andrew Carnegie. The conference failed to achieve any diplomatic breakthrough, due in large part to an atmosphere of suspicion fostered by the Argentinian delegation. It did succeed in establishing an information center that became the Pan American Union. In response to the diplomatic bust, Harrison and Blaine pivoted diplomatically and initiated a crusade for tariff reciprocity with Latin American nations ; the Harrison administration concluded eight reciprocity treaties among these countries. On another front, Harrison sent Frederick Douglass as ambassador to Haiti, but failed in his attempts to establish a naval base there. In 1889, the United States, the United Kingdom and the German Empire were locked in a dispute over control of the Samoan Islands. Historian George H. Ryden 's research indicates Harrison played a key role in determining the status of this Pacific outpost by taking a firm stand on every aspect of Samoa conference negotiations ; this included selection of the local ruler, refusal to allow an indemnity for Germany, as well as the establishment of a three power protectorate, a first for the U.S.. These arrangements facilitated the future dominant power of the U.S. in the Pacific ; Secretary of State Blaine was absent due to complication of lumbago. European embargo of U.S. pork Throughout the 1880s various European countries had imposed a ban on importation of United States pork out of an unconfirmed concern of trichinosis ; at issue was over one billion pounds of pork products with a value of $80 million ( annually ). Harrison engaged Whitelaw Reid, minister to France, and William Walter Phelps, minister to Germany, to restore these exports for the country without delay. Harrison also successfully asked the congress to enact the Meat Inspection Act to eliminate the accusations of product compromise. The president also partnered with Agriculture Secretary Rusk to threaten Germany with retaliation -- by initiating an embargo in the U.S. against Germany 's highly demanded beet sugar. By September 1891 Germany relented, and was soon followed by Denmark, France and Austria - Hungary. Crises in Aleutian Islands and Chile The first international crisis Harrison faced arose from disputed fishing rights on the Alaskan coast. Canada claimed fishing and sealing rights around many of the Aleutian Islands, in violation of U.S. law. As a result, the United States Navy seized several Canadian ships. In 1891, the administration began negotiations with the British that would eventually lead to a compromise over fishing rights after international arbitration, with the British government paying compensation in 1898. In 1891, a diplomatic crisis emerged in Chile, otherwise known as the Baltimore Crisis. The American minister to Chile, Patrick Egan, granted asylum to Chileans who were seeking refuge during the 1891 Chilean Civil War. Egan, previously a militant Irish immigrant to the U.S., was motivated by a personal desire to thwart Great Britain 's influence in Chile ; his action increased tensions between Chile and the United States, which began in the early 1880s when Secretary Blaine had alienated the Chileans in the War of the Pacific. Attack on sailors from the USS Baltimore spawned the 1891 Chilean crisis. The crisis began in earnest when sailors from the USS Baltimore took shore leave in Valparaiso and a fight ensued, resulting in the deaths of two American sailors and the arrest of three dozen others. The Baltimore 's captain, Winfield Schley, based on the nature of the sailors ' wounds, insisted the sailors had been bayonet - attacked by Chilean police without provocation. With Blaine incapacitated, Harrison drafted a demand for reparations. The Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs Manuel Matta replied that Harrison 's message was `` erroneous or deliberately incorrect, '' and said that the Chilean government was treating the affair the same as any other criminal matter. Tensions increased to the brink of war -- Harrison threatened to break off diplomatic relations unless the United States received a suitable apology, and said the situation required, `` grave and patriotic consideration ''. The president also remarked, `` If the dignity as well as the prestige and influence of the United States are not to be wholly sacrificed, we must protect those who in foreign ports display the flag or wear the colors. '' The Navy was also placed on a high level of preparedness. A recuperated Blaine made brief conciliatory overtures to the Chilean government which had no support in the administration ; he then reversed course, joined the chorus for unconditional concessions and apology by the Chileans, who ultimately obliged, and war was averted. Theodore Roosevelt later applauded Harrison for his use of the `` big stick '' in the matter. Annexation of Hawaii In the last days of his administration, Harrison dealt with the issue of Hawaiian annexation. Following a coup d'état against Queen Liliuokalani, the new government of Hawaii led by Sanford Dole petitioned for annexation by the United States. Harrison was interested in expanding American influence in Hawaii and in establishing a naval base at Pearl Harbor but had not previously expressed an opinion on annexing the islands. The United States consul in Hawaii John L. Stevens recognized the new government on February 1, 1893 and forwarded their proposals to Washington. With just one month left before leaving office, the administration signed a treaty on February 14 and submitted it to the Senate the next day with Harrison 's recommendation. The Senate failed to act, and President Cleveland withdrew the treaty shortly after taking office. Cabinet Harrison 's cabinet in 1889 Front row, left to right : Harrison, William Windom, John Wanamaker, Redfield Proctor, James G. Blaine Back row, left to right : William H.H. Miller, John Willock Noble, Jeremiah M. Rusk, Benjamin F. Tracy The Harrison Cabinet Office Name Term President Benjamin Harrison 1889 -- 1893 Vice President Levi P. Morton 1889 -- 1893 Secretary of State James G. Blaine 1889 -- 1892 John W. Foster 1892 -- 1893 Secretary of Treasury William Windom 1889 -- 1891 Charles W. Foster 1891 -- 1893 Secretary of War Redfield Proctor 1889 -- 1891 Stephen B. Elkins 1891 -- 1893 Attorney General William H.H. Miller 1889 -- 1893 Postmaster General John Wanamaker 1889 -- 1893 Secretary of the Navy Benjamin F. Tracy 1889 -- 1893 Secretary of the Interior John W. Noble 1889 -- 1893 Secretary of Agriculture Jeremiah M. Rusk 1889 -- 1893 Judicial appointments Main article : Benjamin Harrison judicial appointments Harrison appointed four Supreme Court justices, including David Josiah Brewer. Harrison appointed four justices to the Supreme Court of the United States. The first was David Josiah Brewer, a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Brewer, the nephew of Justice Field, had previously been considered for a cabinet position. Shortly after Brewer 's nomination, Justice Matthews died, creating another vacancy. Harrison had considered Henry Billings Brown, a Michigan judge and admiralty law expert, for the first vacancy and now nominated him for the second. For the third vacancy, which arose in 1892, Harrison nominated George Shiras. Shiras 's appointment was somewhat controversial because his age -- sixty -- was older than usual for a newly appointed Justice. Shiras also drew the opposition of Senator Matthew Quay of Pennsylvania because they were in different factions of the Pennsylvania Republican party, but his nomination was nonetheless approved. Finally, at the end of his term, Harrison nominated Howell Edmunds Jackson to replace Justice Lamar, who died in January 1893. Harrison knew the incoming Senate would be controlled by Democrats, so he selected Jackson, a respected Tennessee Democrat with whom he was friendly to ensure his nominee would not be rejected. Jackson 's nomination was indeed successful, but he died after only two years on the Court. In addition to his Supreme Court appointments, Harrison appointed ten judges to the courts of appeals, two judges to the circuit courts, and 26 judges to the district courts. States admitted to the Union Six new states were admitted to the Union while Harrison was in office : North Dakota -- November 2, 1889 South Dakota -- November 2, 1889 Montana -- November 8, 1889 Washington -- November 11, 1889 Idaho -- July 3, 1890 Wyoming -- July 10, 1890 More states were admitted during Harrison 's presidency than any other. Vacations and travel Harrison attended a grand, three - day centennial celebration of George Washington 's inauguration in New York City on April 30, 1889, and made the following remarks `` We have come into the serious but always inspiring presence of Washington. He was the incarnation of duty and he teaches us today this great lesson : that those who would associate their names with events that shall outlive a century can only do so by high consecration to duty. Self - seeking has no public observance or anniversary. '' The Harrisons made many trips out of the capital, which included speeches at most stops -- including Philadelphia, New England, Indianapolis and Chicago. The President typically made his best impression speaking before large audiences, as opposed to more intimate settings. The most notable of his presidential trips, theretofore unequaled, was a five - week tour of the west in the spring of 1891, aboard a lavishly outfitted train. Harrison enjoyed a number of short trips out of the capital -- usually for hunting -- to nearby Virginia or Maryland. During the hot Washington summers, the Harrisons took refuge in Deer Park, Maryland and Cape May Point, New Jersey. In 1890, John Wanamaker joined with other Philadelphia devotees of the Harrisons and made a gift to them of a summer cottage at Cape May. Harrison, though appreciative, was uncomfortable with the appearance of impropriety ; a month later, he paid Wanamaker $10,000 as reimbursement to the donors. Nevertheless, Harrison 's opponents made the gift the subject of national ridicule, and Mrs. Harrison and the president were vigorously criticized. Re-election campaign in 1892 Main article : United States presidential election, 1892 Official White House portrait of Benjamin Harrison, painted by Eastman Johnson The treasury surplus had evaporated and the nation 's economic health was worsening -- precursors to the eventual Panic of 1893. Congressional elections in 1890 had gone against the Republicans ; and although Harrison had cooperated with Congressional Republicans on legislation, several party leaders withdrew their support for him because of his adamant refusal to give party members the nod in the course of his executive appointments. Specifically, Thomas C. Platt, Matthew S. Quay, Thomas B. Reed and James Clarkson quietly organized the Grievance Committee, the ambition of which was to initiate a dump - Harrison offensive. They solicited the support of Blaine, without effect however, and Harrison in reaction resolved to run for re-election -- seemingly forced to choose one of two options -- `` become a candidate or forever wear the name of a political coward ''. It was clear that Harrison would not be re-nominated unanimously. Many of Harrison 's detractors persisted in pushing for an incapacitated Blaine, though he announced that he was not a candidate in February 1892. Some party leaders still hoped to draft Blaine into running, and speculation increased when he resigned at the 11th hour as Secretary of State in June. At the convention in Minneapolis, Harrison prevailed on the first ballot, but encountered significant opposition. The Democrats renominated former President Cleveland, making the 1892 election a rematch of the one four years earlier. The tariff revisions of the past four years had made imported goods so expensive that now many voters shifted to the reform position. Many westerners, traditionally Republican voters, defected to the new Populist Party candidate, James Weaver, who promised free silver, generous veterans ' pensions, and an eight - hour work day. The effects of the suppression of the Homestead Strike rebounded against the Republicans as well, although the federal government did not take action. Harrison 's wife Caroline began a critical struggle with tuberculosis earlier in 1892, and two weeks before the election, on October 25, it took her life. Their daughter Mary Harrison McKee assumed the role of First Lady after her mother 's death. Mrs. Harrison 's terminal illness and the fact that both candidates had served in the White House called for a low key campaign, and resulted in neither of the candidates actively campaigning personally. Cleveland ultimately won the election by 277 electoral votes to Harrison 's 145, and also won the popular vote by 5,556,918 to 5,176,108 ; this was the most decisive presidential election in 20 years. It gave Harrison the distinction of being the only president whose predecessor and successor were the same man. Post-presidency and death Grave of President Harrison and his two wives in Indianapolis, Indiana After he left office, Harrison visited the World 's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in June 1893. After the Expo, Harrison returned to his home in Indianapolis. Harrison had been elected a companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States in 1882, and was elected as commander ( president ) of the Ohio Commandery on May 3, 1893. For a few months in 1894, Harrison lived in San Francisco, California, where he gave law lectures at Stanford University. In 1896, some of Harrison 's friends in the Republican party tried to convince him to seek the presidency again, but he declined. He traveled around the nation making appearances and speeches in support of William McKinley 's candidacy for president. From July 1895 to March 1901 Harrison served on the Board of Trustees of Purdue University, where Harrison Hall, a dormitory, was named in his honor. He wrote a series of articles about the federal government and the presidency which were republished in 1897 as a book titled This Country of Ours. In 1896, Harrison at age 62 remarried, to Mary Scott Lord Dimmick, the widowed 37 - year - old niece and former secretary of his deceased wife. Harrison 's two adult children, Russell, 41 years old at the time, and Mary ( Mamie ) McKee, 38, disapproved of the marriage and did not attend the wedding. Benjamin and Mary had one child together, Elizabeth ( February 21, 1897 -- December 26, 1955 ). In 1898, Harrison served as an attorney for the Republic of Venezuela in their British Guiana boundary dispute with the United Kingdom. An international trial was agreed upon ; he filed an 800 - page brief and traveled to Paris where he spent more than 25 hours in court on Venezuela 's behalf. Although he lost the case, his legal arguments won him international renown. In 1899 Harrison attended the First Peace Conference at The Hague. Presbyterian General Assembly special committee on creed revision, including Benjamin Harrison and Judge Edward William Cornelius Humphrey Harrison was an active Presbyterian and served as an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis and on a special committee on creed revision in the national Presbyterian General Assembly. However, he died before he could cast his vote at the meeting. Harrison developed what was thought to be influenza ( then referred to as grippe ) in February 1901. He was treated with steam vapor inhalation and oxygen, but his condition worsened. He died from pneumonia at his home in Indianapolis on Wednesday, March 13, 1901, at the age of 67. Harrison 's remains are interred in Indianapolis 's Crown Hill Cemetery, next to the remains of his first wife, Caroline. After her death in 1948, Mary Dimmick Harrison, his second wife, was buried beside him. Historical reputation and memorials According to historian R. Hal Williams, Harrison had a `` widespread reputation for personal and official integrity ''. Closely scrutinized by Democrats, Harrison 's reputation was largely intact when he left the White House. Having an advantage few 19th Century Presidents had, Harrison 's own party, the Republicans, controlled Congress, while his administration actively advanced a Republican program of a higher tariff, moderate control of corporations, protecting African American voting rights, a generous Civil War pension, and compromising over the controversial silver issue. Historians have not raised `` serious questions about Harrison 's own integrity or the integrity of his administration. '' Following the Panic of 1893, Harrison became more popular in retirement. His legacy among historians is scant, and `` general accounts of his period inaccurately treat Harrison as a cipher ''. More recently, historians have recognized the importance of the Harrison administration -- and Harrison himself -- in the new foreign policy of the late nineteenth century. The administration faced challenges throughout the hemisphere, in the Pacific, and in relations with the European powers, involvements that would be taken for granted in the twenty first century. Harrison 's presidency belongs properly to the 19th century, but he `` clearly pointed the way '' to the modern presidency that would emerge under William McKinley. The bi-partisan Sherman Anti-Trust Act signed into law by Harrison remains in effect over 120 years later and was the most important legislation passed by the Fifty - first Congress. Harrison 's support for African American voting rights and education would be the last significant attempts to protect civil rights until the 1930s. Harrison 's tenacity at foreign policy was emulated by politicians such as Theodore Roosevelt. The 1st Harrison stamp Issue of 1902 Harrison was memorialized on several postage stamps. The first was a 13 - cent stamp issued on November 18, 1902, with the engraved likeness of Harrison modeled after a photo provided by his widow. In all Harrison has been honored on six U.S. Postage stamps, more than most other U.S. Presidents. Harrison also was featured on the five - dollar National Bank Notes from the third charter period, beginning in 1902. In 2012, a dollar coin with his image, part of the Presidential $1 Coin Program, was issued. In 1908, the people of Indianapolis erected the Benjamin Harrison memorial statue, created by Charles Niehaus and Henry Bacon, in honor of Harrison 's lifetime achievements as military leader, U.S. Senator, and President of the United States. The statue occupies a site on the south edge of University Park, facing the Birch Bayh Federal Building and United States Courthouse across New York Avenue. In 1942, a Liberty Ship, the SS Benjamin Harrison, was named in his honor. In 1951, Harrison 's home was opened to the public as a library and museum. It had been used as a dormitory for a music school from 1937 to 1950. The house was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964. Theodore Roosevelt dedicated Fort Benjamin Harrison in the former president 's honor in 1906. It is located in Lawrence, Indiana, a northeastern suburb of Indianapolis. The federal government decommissioned Fort Harrison in 1991 and transferred 1,700 of its 2,500 acres to Indiana 's state government in 1995 to establish Fort Harrison State Park. The site has been redeveloped to include residential neighborhoods and a golf course. 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CS1 maint : Extra text : authors list ( link ) Moore, Chieko ; Hale, Hester Anne ( 2006 ). Benjamin Harrison : Centennial President. Nova Publishers. ISBN 978 - 1 - 60021 - 066 - 2. Owens, Robert M. ( 2007 ). Mr. Jefferson 's Hammer : William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press. p. 6. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8061 - 3842 - 8. Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 : 1877 -- 1896 ( 1919 ) online complete ; old, factual and heavily political, by winner of Pulitzer Prize Sievers, Harry J. ( 1968 ). Benjamin Harrison : v1 Hoosier Warrior, 1833 -- 1865 ; v2 : Hoosier Statesman From The Civil War To The White House 1865 -- 1888 ; v3 : Benjamin Harrison. Hoosier President. The White House and After. University Publishers Inc. Smith, Robert C., ed. ( 2003 ). Encyclopedia of African - American Politics. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8160 - 4475 - 7. Socolofsky, Homer E. ; Spetter, Allan B. ( 1987 ). 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JSTOR 30015511. Further reading Adleson, Bruce ( 2006 ). Benjamin Harrison. Twenty - First Century Books. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8225 - 1497 - 8. Debs, Eugene V. `` General Benjamin Harrison -- Relentless Foe of Labor : A Democratic Campaign Speech in Terre Haute, IN, Oct. 27, 1888, '' Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, November 1, 1888, section 2, pp. 1, 4. Dewey, Davis R. National Problems : 1880 -- 1897 ( 1907 ) Morgan, H. Wayne, From Hayes to McKinley : National Party Politics, 1877 -- 1896 ( 1969 ) Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. A History of the United States since the Civil War. Volume V, 1888 -- 1901 ( Macmillan, 1937 ). Primary sources Harrison, Benjamin. Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty - third President of the United States ( 1892 ), compiled by Charles Hedges. Harrison, Benjamin ( 1901 ). Harrison, Mary Lord, ed. Views of an ex-president. Indianapolis, Indiana : Bowen - Merrill Co. Volwiler, Albert T., ed. The Correspondence between Benjamin Harrison and James G. 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Question: who was the only u.s. president whose grandfather was also president
Answer: Benjamin Harrison