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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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Birth: | 20th August, 1833 |
Death: | 13th March, 1901 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | President |
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States; he was the grandson of the ninth President, William Henry Harrison. Harrison had become a prominent local attorney, Presbyterian church leader and politician in Indianapolis, Indiana. During the American Civil War, he served the Union for most of the war as a colonel and on February 14, 1865 was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from January 23, 1865.
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