President #23, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #30 Benjamin in the middle Benjamin Harrison ran for President twice and never got the most popular votes. Republicans chose him to run because he both a famous name (his grandfather was William Henry Harrison) and he came from an important swing state at the time (Indiana). Few of us [...]
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