Sharing White House History about Benjamin Harrison
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The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
Nominated for president on the eighth ballot at the 1888 Republican convention, Benjamin Harrison conducted one of the first "front-porch" campaigns,...
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The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...
A group of physicians and surgeons meeting in Washington 1891 was treated to a reception at the White House on the...
Born in North Bend, Ohio, on August 20, 1833, Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of "Old Tippecanoe," William Henry Harrison, ninth president...