General Information:
Major "Events" of his Presidency:
- Benjamin Harrison had been the twenty-third President of the nation with Levi P. Morton as his Vice President for his only term.
- Term as President lasted from 1889 to 1893.
- Harrison had become a prominent local attorney, Presbyterian church leader and politician in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Major "Events" of his Presidency:
- The passing of the Sherman Antitrust Act, an act that prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anticompetitive and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts.
- The passing of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
- The passing of the McKinley Tariff.
- The emergence of the Populist Party.