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Benjamin Harrison
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Benjamin Harrison was the twenty-third
president of the United States. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on a farm near the Ohio River. He attended Miami University in Ohio. He moved to Indianapolis where he campaigned for the Republican Party. Harrison married Caroline Lavinia Scott in 1853. Harrison received 100,000 fewer votes in the election than Grover Clevand, and won the Electoral College 233 to 168. Harrison died in 1909. |