The redemption of silver dangerously depleted U.S. He also signed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, which attempted to protect trade and commerce against "unlawful restraints and monopolies." Harrison lobbied successfully for the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, requiring the government to use silver in its coinage. Loyal to veterans, Harrison signed the Dependent and Disability Pensions Act in 1890, expanding aid to disabled service men, their widows and dependents.
The great Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 opened Indian Territory, while the Johnstown Flood claimed 2,209 lives in Pennsylvania. Harrison's administration began in a momentous year. Harrison lost the popular vote, but with the help of a narrow victory in New York won the Electoral College with 233 to 168 votes. The key issue of the election was the tariff, which Harrison pledged to raise if elected. Nominated for president at the 1888 Republican Convention, Benjamin Harrison conducted one of the first "front porch" campaigns, delivering short speeches to delegations that visited him. In 1881, the Republican controlled legislature named him to serve in the United States Senate (popular election of Senators did not begin until 1913).
His legal skill, military service, and speeches on behalf of Republican causes made him famous throughout Indiana. His troops fought well and Harrison received a brevet promotion to brigadier general.Īfter the war Harrison returned to Indianapolis to his legal practice, specializing in criminal and divorce cases. His unit guarded railroads in Kentucky and did not see significant action until the battle of Resaca in northwest Georgia in 1864. During the Civil War, Harrison served as a colonel of the 70th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He became active in the Republican Party and ran successfully for city attorney of Indianapolis in 1857. The couple moved to Indianapolis, where Harrison practiced law and established a successful partnership with William Wallace. Together they had two children, Russell and Mary. While at Farmer's College Harrison met and fell in love with Caroline "Carrie" Lavinia Scott, the daughter of John Scott, a science and math professor and ordained Presbyterian minister. In 1852, he graduated with honors and took up the study of law at a Cincinnati law firm gaining admission to the bar two years later. At age 14 Harrison attended Farmer's College in Cincinnati and transferred to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio as a junior. His early education included attendance at a nearby one-room schoolhouse. The second of ten children to John and Elizabeth Harrison, Benjamin grew up at The Point, his grandfather's six hundred acre farm near North Bend. Born in North Bend, Ohio, on August 20, 1833, Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of "Old Tippecanoe," William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States.
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