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Russell Benjamin Harrison

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Using the wealth, Russell Harrison invested in the Austin and Northwestern Railway, public transportation systems in Richmond and Muncie, Indiana, and engaged in land speculation in Montana. In 1894, he moved to
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Major Russell Harrison with his daughter Marthena and nephew and niece (Benjamin "Baby girl" and Mary McKee) on a cart pulled by the presidential pet goat "Whiskers" at the
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where he served two four-year terms. He died of a heart attack in Indianapolis on December 13, 1936. He was the last surviving child of Benjamin and Caroline Harrison.
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was exhumed from his grave and hung by his neck in a tree near the Ohio Medical College. Harrison oversaw communication with newspapers during the incident.
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in January 1900, and finally discharged in December of the same year. After the war he moved his family to Indianapolis, where he set up a law office.
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as president of the Terre Haute Street Railway Company, which he reorganized into the Terre Haute Electric Street Railway Company. His son, also named
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until 1927, and doubling as the consul to Portugal from 1919 to 1927. He first entered politics in 1921, serving two two-year terms in the
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By right of his service in the Spanish–American War, as well as his descent from President and Major General
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in succession to his father. In 1891 he became an early member of the District of Columbia Society of the
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where he took courses in mining and engineering. In 1878, his grandfather
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and inspector general in May 1898. He served in the force that occupied
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and later became inspector general of Puerto Rico. He was promoted to
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of Nebraska, on January 10, 1884. The couple had two children,
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In 1908 he returned to public service, serving as consul to
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American military personnel of the Spanish–American War
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Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
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List of federal judges appointed by Benjamin Harrison
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Historical Register & Dictionary of the US Army
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Indiana Senate
Indiana House of Representatives
Marion County
Consul
Portugal
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Consul
Mexico
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Inspector General
Puerto Rico
Oxford
Ohio
Indianapolis
Indiana
Republican
William III
Benjamin Harrison
Caroline Scott
Harrison family of Virginia
Alma mater
Pennsylvania Military Academy
Lafayette College

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