U.S. Presidents – Benjamin Harrison
August 9, 2008 Maui Curmudgeon, U.S. Presidents No CommentsBy the Maui Curmudgeon (23rd in a 43-part series)
How do the U.S. Presidents stack up? I thought I’d find out by reading biographies of all 43 presidents, in the order of their administrations. Here are briefly the pros and cons of my discoveries, the interesting bits, and how I’d rank him. For comparison, I give you the 1982 Murrary-Blessing ranking, a survey of hundreds of leading historians who ranked each president by number. This survey is the gold standard of presidential rankings and is most cited when this kind of thing needs bringing up in media.
BENJAMIN HARRISON: 1889-1893-1897 ~ 23rd U.S. President
The peanut butter in the Grover Cleveland sandwich. The president between Cleveland’s two terms. His administration can be summed in one word – boring.x
The grandson of the one-month president – William Henry Harrison – Benjamin barely won election and was severely trounced by Cleveland in the rematch.
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In a way, presidential politics really pick up steam after his administration, and many historians think of it as the last 19th century administration. In that, they mean the country began to think of itself not as a collection of states or groups, but as a nation of power on the world stage, a topic Harrison spoke about and abhorred.
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In a way, presidential politics really pick up steam after his administration, and many historians think of it as the last 19th century administration. In that, they mean the country began to think of itself not as a collection of states or groups, but as a nation of power on the world stage, a topic Harrison spoke about and abhorred.
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