- 23rd President of the United States (1889-1893).
- Great-Grandson of Benjamin Harrison, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and grandson of William Henry Harrison who was the 9th U.S. President.
- He was the first president to have his voice recorded. It was recorded on a wax cylinder during his second campaign for president.
- His presidency came between the two nonsuccessive terms of Grover Cleveland.
- He lost his wife Caroline less than a month before his reelection campaign began.
- He attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he was a member of the fraternity Phi Delta Theta, and graduated in 1852.
- Served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
- Served in the United States Senate from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1887.
- Served as an attorney for the Republic of Venezuela in the boundary dispute between Venezuela and the United Kingdom in 1900.
- He was very adamant that during his presidential campaign he wanted his association with his famous grandfather to be downplayed. Despite that, his campaign managers made the connection anyway and his campaign slogan became "Keep the ball rolling" and created a huge steel ball which they rolled from his birthplace in North Bend, Ohio, all the way to Washington.
- Son of Congressman John Scott Harrison.
- Grandfather of Congressman William H. Harrison.
- Cousin of Gov. Beverley Randolph, Congressman Burwell Bassett, Congressman Carter Henry Harrison, and Mayor Carter H. Harrison.
- Harrison had a cold demeanor when meeting with people. The press gave him the nickname "The Icebox", a name he greatly hated.
- First sitting President to attend a Major League baseball game.
- Inducted into the Indiana Military Veterans Hall of Fame in 2017.
- Inducted into the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame in 1992 (inaugural class).
- He was America's centennial president, being inaugurated exactly one-hundred years after George Washington.
- He was the only president whose grandfather was also president and the only one to be preceded and succeeded by the same man, Grover Cleveland.
- Electricity was first installed into the White House during Harrison's term, supplementing the gas lights already in use since no one at the time expected electricity to replace gas. Harrison and his wife refused to touch the electrical switches for fear of electrocution and left their operation to the White House staff.
- His son, Russell Benjamin, was born 8 days before his 21st birthday in 1854. Harrison is the second-youngest President to father a child, ahead of only Andrew Johnson.
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