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President Harrison   /prˈɛzədˌɛnt hˈɛrɪsən/   Listen
President Harrison

noun
1.
23rd President of the United States (1833-1901).  Synonyms: Benjamin Harrison, Harrison, President Benjamin Harrison.
2.
9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841).  Synonyms: Harrison, President William Henry Harrison, William Henry Harrison.






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"President Harrison" Quotes from Famous Books



... French minister at this period, a rather shallow and illiberal man who disliked Mr. Webster, gives, in his recently published correspondence, the following amusing account of the presentation of the diplomatic corps to President Harrison,—a little bit of contemporary gossip which carries us back to those days better than anything else could possibly do. The diplomatic corps assembled at the house of Mr. Fox, the British minister, who was to read a speech in ...
— Daniel Webster • Henry Cabot Lodge

... the things some people say about his 'secesh' principles, he might say to you as was said by the Superintendent of a certain railroad to a son of one my predecessors in office. Some two years after the death of President Harrison, the son of his successor in this office wanted to take his father on an excursion somewhere or other, and went to the Superintendent's office to order ...
— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure

... York. The bluff rises 130 feet and still retains the name of Claremont. The apex of the memorial is 280 feet above the river. Ninety thousand people contributed to the "Grant Monument Association fund" which, with interest, aggregated $600,000. The corner stone was laid by President Harrison in 1892 and dedicated April 27, 1897, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Grant's birth, with a great military, naval and civil parade. The occasion was marked by an address of President McKinley and an oration of Gen. Horace Porter, president of ...
— The Hudson - Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention • Wallace Bruce

... July, pursuant to agreement, Mr. Lee's resolution was taken up in the committee of the whole house, Benjamin Harrison of Virginia (father of the late President Harrison), in the chair. Jefferson's draft of a declaration of independence, bearing a few verbal alterations by Franklin and Adams, was reported at the same time, and for three consecutive days its paragraphs were debated, altered, ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various

... appointed by President Harrison consisted of three members, of whom the President was C. R. Procter, later Charles Lyman, with Roosevelt and Hugh Thompson, an ex-Confederate soldier. I do not disparage Roosevelt's colleagues when ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer



Words linked to "President Harrison" :   president, William Henry Harrison, United States President, President of the United States, Chief Executive



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