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unusual facts about President Harrison


President Harrison

Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, 1889–1893, grandson of William


Veterans' Preference Act

A year later, President Harrison issued an Executive Order allowing honorably discharged veterans who were former Federal employees to be reinstated without time limit.


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C.C. Calkins

When President Harrison visited Seattle in 1891, he was taken around the lake on the sidewheeler Kirkland, with the Calkins (and other ships) travelling as escorts, with the steam calliope on Calkins playing Home Sweet Home.