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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Benjamin Harrison, Paul Hackett, Tom Brinkman, O. J. Mayo, Alfred B. Mullett, Robert Huebner, George Chakiris, Edward A. Hannegan, Russ Nixon, Thomas Mercer, Vera-Ellen, Dorothy Kamenshek, Dorothy Mueller, Othniel Looker, John Scott Harrison, Wendy Barrie-Wilson, John B. Weller, Benjamin W. Chidlaw, Janice Rule, David Payne, Melancthon S. Wade, Barry Bonnell, Jotham Meeker, Angelo Herndon, Andy Ireland, Frank Harmon Myers, Robert McGinnis, Stanley M. Chesley, Josephine Johnson, Ed Jucker, Arthur Pickens, Mark P. Painter, Timothy Black, Robert Reily, David Turpie, Dick Warlock, Megan McCormick, Livingston W. Houston, Bob Schuler, Alyssa Beckerman, Hank Edwards, Diyral Briggs, Jacob H. Bromwell, Larry Pape, Ed Klieman, Art Hauger, Ahmed Plummer, Clifton B. Beach, Bob Barton, Ambrose E. B. Stephens, Charles Clayton Morrison, Isaac Wilson Joyce, John Weld Peck, Tracy Smith. Excerpt: Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 - March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the United States (1889-1893). Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there. During the American Civil War, he served as a Brigadier General in the XX Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. After the war he unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of Indiana, and was later appointed to the U.S. Senate from that state. Harrison, a Republican, was elected to the presidency in 1888, defeating Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland. His administration is most remembered for economic legislation, including the McKinley Tariff and the Sherman Antitrust Act, and for annual federal spending that reached one billion dollars for the first time. Democrats attacked the "Billion Dollar Congress," and used the issue, along with the growing unpopu...