United States presidential election of 1892, American presidential election, held on November 8, 1892, in which Democrat Grover Cleveland defeated Republican incumbent Benjamin Harrison . In winning, Cleveland became the first former president to be restored to the office. Harrison’s first term as president provoked widespread discontent. Despite the narrowness of his victory in 1888, the Republican Congress promptly pushed through a series of partisan measures, and resulting legislation such as the McKinley Tariff Act (1890) which substantially raised duties on most imports was met with frustrated charges that Harrison was too closely aligned with the country’s wealthy elite. Another congressional act,
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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