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Benjamin Harrison | Biography, Presidency, Accomplishments, & Facts

Benjamin Harrison, (born August 20, 1833, North Bend, Ohio, U.S. died March 13, 1901, Indianapolis, Indiana), 23rd president of the United States (1889–93), a moderate Republican who won an electoral majority while losing the popular vote by more than 100,000 to Democrat Grover Cleveland. Harrison signed into law the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), the first legislation to prohibit business combinations in restraint of trade. Harrison was the son of John Scott Harrison, a farmer, and Elizabeth Irwin Harrison and grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison (elected 1840). In 1852 he graduated with distinction from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, ....

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