Born in 1833 on a farm on the Ohio River below Cincinnati, Harrison attended Miami University in Ohio and studied law in Cincinnati. He moved to Indianapolis, where he was a lawyer and sat down for the Republican Party. He married Caroline Lavinia Scott in 1853. After the Civil War - he was Colonel of the 70th Volunteer Infantry - Harrison became a pillar of Indianapolis, increasing its reputation as a brilliant jurist.
The Democrats defeated him for governor of Indiana in 1876 by wrongly stigmatized him as "Kid Gloves" Harrison. In the 1880s he served in the U.S. Senate, where he defended Indians. Settlers and veterans of the Civil War.
In the presidential elections received 100,000 fewer votes than Harrison in Cleveland, but carried the Electoral College 233-168. Although Harrison had no political affairs, his supporters had many promises, given its name.
When Boss Matt Quay of Pennsylvania heard that Harrison ascribed his narrow victory to Providence, Quay exclaimed that Harrison would never know "how close to approach a number of men were forced ... the prison to him as president."
Harrison was proud of the strong foreign policy, he helped form. The first Pan American Congress met in Washington in 1889, establishing an information center, the later the Pan American Union. At the end of his tenure, Harrison has the Senate a treaty to annex Hawaii to his disappointment, President Cleveland later withdrew it.
Considerable credit accounts were signed by Harrison for internal improvements, naval expansion, and subsidies for steamship lines. For the first time except in war, Congress appropriated 1000000000 $. When critics attacked "the billion-dollar Congress," Speaker Thomas B. Reed replied: "That's a billion-dollar country." President Harrison the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, signed the first federal law attempting to regulate trusts "to protect against monopolies and unlawful agreements, trade".
The most perplexing domestic problem Harrison faced was the tariff issue. The high prices that actually a surplus of money in the treasury. Low-fare proponents argue that the surplus is hurting business. Republican leaders in Congress successfully met the challenge. Representative William McKinley and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich framed a still higher tariff bill, some prices were deliberately priceless.
Harrison tried to stay still acceptable by provisions in reciprocity. To the Treasury surplus, the rate of imported raw sugar was removed, sugar growers in the United States two cent £ 1 bounty on their production was.
Long before the end of the Harrison Administration, the Treasury surplus had evaporated, and prosperity seemed to disappear. Congressional elections in 1890 were decided stingingly against the Republicans, and party leaders to abandon President Harrison although he had cooperated with Congress on party legislation. Nevertheless, his party re-elected him in 1892, but was defeated by Cleveland.
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