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Benjamin Harrison was an American politician. He was born in 1740 at Virginia and died in 1791. He was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1764, a member of the Correspondence Committee in 1773, and a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1778. From 1778 to 1782 he was Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and ardently advocated united opposition to Great Britain. He was Governor of the State from 1782 to 1784, and when a delegate to the State Convention of 1788 opposed the ratification of the Constitution as being a national and not a Federal document.
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the USA from 1889 to 1893. He was born in 1833 at North Bend, Ohio and died in 1901. The grandson of President William Henry Harrison, he graduated at Miami University in 1852, and settled as a lawyer in Indianapolis. He was elected reporter of the Indiana Supreme Court in 1860, but his term was interrupted by the American Civil War.
He volunteered in 1863 and was colonel of an Indiana regiment in the battles of Resaca and Peach Tree Creek in 1864 he won distinction. Leaving the army with the brevet of brigadier-general, he resumed his position of Supreme Court reporter.
General Harrison was a successful lawyer and campaign orator, and in 1876 he received the Republican nomination for Governor, being defeated by a small majority. His name was presented to the Republican National Convention of 1880. Elected to the US Senate, he served from 1881 to 1887. At the National Convention of 1888 he was a leading candidate from the start, received the nomination, and was elected over President Cleveland in a campaign in which protection was the principal issue.
In his Cabinet, James Blaine in the State and Windom in the Treasury Department were national figures. Proctor, and later Elkins, was in the War Department, B F Tracy in the Navy, Noble in the Interior, Rusk Secretary of Agriculture, Miller Attorney-General, and Wanamaker Postmaster-General. The administration was marked politically by the McKinley Tariff Act in 1890, with the attendant feature of reciprocity; the foreign relations with Chili and Hawaii were matters of interest.
In 1892 the President was a candidate for renomination, and received the gift over his powerful rival, James Blaine, who resigned from the Cabinet during the contest. President Harrison was in the election again confronted with Cleveland. The Democratic reaction, very marked in 1890, proved to be still in force, and the President was defeated and retired from office in 1893.
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Jean Vincennes was a Canadian explorer. He was born in 1688 and died in 1736. He attained great influence over the Miami Indians, among whom he resided for some time. He rendered valuable services against the Foxes near Detroit in 1712. In 1735 he built a fort and trading post on the present site of Vincennes, Indiana. He joined the expedition of D'Artaguette against the Chickasaws, by whom they were finally defeated-and burned at the stake.
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Little Turtle was a Miami Indian chief. He died in 1813. He commanded at the defeat of General Harmar on the Miami in 1790, and of General St Clair at St Mary's in 1791. He was one of the signers of the Greenville treaty in 1795.
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The Shawnees were a tribe of American Algonquin Indians, after wandering about the east they were driven west by the Iroquois. They first aided the French in their final struggle until won over to the English. They joined Pontiac and from time to time continued hostilities until the peace of 1786. They took part in the Miami War, but, finally reduced by General Wayne, they submitted under the Treaty of 1795. In 1812 a part joined the English. The Missouri band ceded their lands in 1825, and the Ohio band in 1831. They became somewhat scattered, but the main band in Kansas ended tribal relations in 1854.
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Ben Vereen is an American actor. He was born in 1946 at Miami, Florida.
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Jack Elam was an American actor. He was born in 1918 at Miami, Arizona and died in 2003.
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Sylvester Stallone is an American actor. He was born in 1946 at New York. after studying drama at the University of Miami he worked in theatre in New York before working in films, starting in 'The Italian Stallion' before getting his break aftr writing the script for 'Rocky' and insisting he played the lead role in the film in return for a reduced payment for the rights.
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William H Macy is an American actor. he was born in 1950 at Miami, Florida.
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Alexa Vega is an American actress. She was born in 1988 at Miami, Florida.
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Catherine Keener is an American actress. She was born in 1960 at Miami, Florida.
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