Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States. He was the grandson of William Henry Harrison, who had been elected president in 1840. Benjamin was named after his maternal grandfather, Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a U.S. Senator from Virginia
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Benjamin Harrison was a successful lawyer and businessman in Indianapolis, Indiana, before being appointed by President William McKinley to be Collector of Customs for the Port of Indianapolis in 1897. He was later appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to be U.S. Minister to Russia in 1905.
In 1913 he ran for Governor of Indiana and served two terms, then was elected Vice President in 1916 on the Republican ticket with President Woodrow Wilson, serving under him from 1913 until 1921 when he died in office from complications from pneumonia.