|
Election of 1888 Candidate |
Electoral Vote |
Popular Vote |
Percent |
|
Benjamin Harrison Republican |
233 |
5,443,892 |
47.82 |
|
Grover Cleveland Democrat |
168 |
5,534,488 |
48.62 |
|
Clinton B. Fisk Prohibition |
249,813 |
2.19 | |
|
Alson J. Streeter Union Labor |
146,602 |
1.29 | |
|
Other |
8,519 |
0.07 | |
|
Note: This was the second election in American history finished second in electoral votes. The previous election |
In which the candidate with the greatest number of popular votes was that of 1876. |
Benjamin Harrison Administration (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893)
Vice President: Levi P. Morton Secretary of State: James G. Blaine; John W.
Foster (from June 1892)
Secretary of the Treasury: William Windom;
Charles Foster (from February 1891) Secretary of War: Redfield Proctor; Stephen
B. Elkins (from December 1891)
Attorney General: William H. H. Miller Postmaster General: John Wanamaker Secretary of the Navy: Benjamin F. Tracy Secretary of the Interior: John W. Noble Secretary of Agriculture: Jeremiah M. Rusk Supreme Court Appointments: David J. Brewer (1889); Henry B. Brown (1890); George Shiras, Jr. (1892); Howell E. Jackson (1893)
States Admitted: North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington (all 1889); Idaho, Wyoming (both 1890)
First Wife: Caroline “Carrie” Lavinia Scott (1832-1892)
First Marriage: October 20, 1853
Second Wife: Mary Scott Lord Dimmick (1858-1948)
Second Marriage: April 6, 1896
Children: (by his first wife) Russell Benjamin (1854-1936); Mary Scott (1858-1930); (by his second wife) Elizabeth (1897-1955)
Electric lights were installed in the White House during Benjamin Harrison’s term, though his wife refused to turn them on because she was frightened of the switches.
He is the only president who is the grandson of another president, William Henry Harrison.
He is the only president ever to have been preceded and succeeded by the same president.
Quiet and withdrawn, Harrison was always formal in public and addressed even his close male friends as “Mister.”
Father: John Scott Harrison (1804-1878) Mother: Elizabeth Irwin Harrison (1810-1850)
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