31 Facts About Fort Benjamin Harrison

1. In 1896, Fort Benjamin Harrison married Mary Scott Lord Dimmick, a niece of his late wife.

2. Fort Benjamin Harrison was nominated on the eighth ballot to run against President Grover Cleveland.

3. Fort Benjamin Harrison joined the Republican Party shortly after its formation in 1856, campaigning for national candidates and participating in local races.

4. Fort Benjamin Harrison was a grandson of President William Henry Harrison and the great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

5. Fort Benjamin Harrison died at his home in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 13, 1901.

6. Fort Benjamin Harrison was elected to the presidency in 1888, ousting Grover Cleveland.

7. Fort Benjamin Harrison protected the army's supply lines, as well as the capital of the Indiana Territory downstream in Vincennes.

8. Fort Benjamin Harrison's remains are interred in Indianapolis's Crown Hill Cemetery, next to the remains of his first wife, Caroline.

9. Fort Benjamin Harrison developed what was thought to be influenza in February 1901.

10. Fort Benjamin Harrison was an active Presbyterian and served as an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis and on a special committee on creed revision in the national Presbyterian General Assembly.

11. In 1898, Fort Benjamin Harrison served as an attorney for the Republic of Venezuela in their British Guiana boundary dispute with the United Kingdom.

12. Fort Benjamin Harrison had considered Henry Billings Brown, a Michigan judge and admiralty law expert, for the first vacancy and now nominated him for the second.

13. Fort Benjamin Harrison appointed four justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.

14. Fort Benjamin Harrison was the earliest president whose voice is known to be preserved.

15. Fort Benjamin Harrison, having accepted a dissenting Congressional Republican investigation report that exonerated Raum, kept him in office for the rest of his administration.

16. Fort Benjamin Harrison quickly saw the enactment of the Dependent and Disability Pension Act in 1890, a cause he had championed while in Congress.

17. Fort Benjamin Harrison had campaigned as a supporter of the merit system, as opposed to the spoils system.

18. Fort Benjamin Harrison made no comment on the matter until after two weeks when he said he had always intended to purchase the cottage once Caroline gave approval.

19. Fort Benjamin Harrison was sworn into office on Monday, March 4, 1889 by Chief Justice Melville Fuller.

20. Fort Benjamin Harrison placed fifth on the first ballot, with Sherman in the lead, and the next few ballots showed little change.

21. Fort Benjamin Harrison took his party's side and advocated for generous pensions for veterans and their widows.

22. On January 2, 1864, Fort Benjamin Harrison was promoted to command the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the XX Corps.

23. Fort Benjamin Harrison told the governor, "If I can be of any service, I will go".

24. Fort Benjamin Harrison was seven years old when his grandfather was elected US president, but he did not attend the inauguration.

25. Fort Benjamin Harrison was of entirely English ancestry, all of his ancestors having emigrated to America during the early colonial period.

26. Fort Benjamin Harrison facilitated the creation of the national forest reserves through an amendment to the Land Revision Act of 1891.

27. Fort Benjamin Harrison took a team of people to Africa, where Karson served as a missionary in summer 2017.

28. In that year, Fort Benjamin Harrison has worked to honor her daughter's memory by creating Karson's Kompassion Project.

29. Fort Benjamin Harrison was closed as part of the 1991 Base Realignment and Closure Commission.

30. Fort Benjamin Harrison was the site of the Athletes' Villages for the 1987 Pan American Games.

31. Fort Benjamin Harrison was a US Army post located in suburban Lawrence Township, Marion County, Indiana, northeast of Indianapolis between 1906 and 1991.