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this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
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Just to be clear: you're talking about William Henry Harrison. We've had two presidents named Harrison; Benjamin Harrison, his grandson, was elected to the presidency half a century later and served a full term between Grover Cleveland's two terms.
I would have thought between the article and me noting he died in a month that I was clear enough, but I'll edit it to be more specific.
It's an important distinction that a lot of people might not be aware of. Benjamin Harrison pushed legislation to ban corporate monopolies and collusion; as well as creating the concept of National Forests, which would eventually lead to the National Park service. He also tried (unfortunately unsuccessfully) to continue Lincoln's legacy by passing some major civil rights legislation, including voting rights enforcement and federal education funding for Black Americans.
Maybe I'm biased by living only a couple miles from Benjamin Harrison's house, but he was definitely a lot more consequential than his grandfather.
I'm in Oregon and when we were kids they absolutely drilled every single factoid about the Oregon trail into us, so I know the general feeling haha.