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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Indiana / USBenjamin HARRISON
(1833-1901)
Senate Years of Service:
1881-1887Party: RepublicanHARRISON, Benjamin,
(great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison [1726-1791], grandson of
President William Henry Harrison, son of John Scott Harrison of
Ohio, and grandfather of William Henry Harrison [1896-1990]), a
Senator from Indiana and 23d President of the United States; born
in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, August 20, 1833; graduated
from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1852; studied law in
Cincinnati; moved to Indianapolis in 1854; admitted to the bar and
practiced; reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of the
State; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; brevetted
brigadier general and mustered out in 1865; while in the field in
October 1864 was reelected reporter of the State supreme court and
served four years; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor
of Indiana in 1876; appointed a member of the Mississippi River
Commission in 1879; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate and served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1887; chairman,
Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Forty-seventh
Congress), Committee on Territories (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth
Congresses); elected President of the United States in 1888;
inaugurated on March 4, 1889, and served until March 3, 1893;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892; attorney for the
Republic of Venezuela in the boundary dispute between Venezuela and
Great Britain in 1900; died in Indianapolis, Ind., March 13, 1901;
interment in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Harrison, Benjamin. This Country of Ours. New
York: Scribners, 1897; Sievers, Harry J. Benjamin Harrison.
3 vols. New York: University Publishers, 1960-1966.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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