The new administration - visitors paying their respects to President Harrison at the White House
Summary
Shows crowd entering White House through a door and exiting out an East Room window over a temporary bridge.
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 68, 1889 March 16, p. 96.
Reference copy in PRES FILE - Harrison, Benjamin Inauguration, 1889.
Reference copy in LOT 4386-59E.
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He was the grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison. Before ascending to the presidency, Harrison established himself as a prominent local attorney, Presbyterian church leader, and politician in Indiana. During the American Civil War, he served the Union as a colonel and later a brevet brigadier general. He was later elected to the U.S. Senate by the Indiana legislature. A Republican, Harrison was elected to the presidency in 1888, defeating the Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland after conducting one of the first "front-porch" campaigns by delivering short speeches to delegations that visited him in Indianapolis. "We Americans have no commission from God to police the world."
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- visitors paying their respects to President Harrison at the White ...
- visitors paying their respects to President Harrison at the White ...
- visitors paying their respects to President Harrison at the White House
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