Presidential Chronicles

Episode #229: Benjamin Harrison #4: Postwar: Law & Politics (1865-1878)


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Benjamin Harrison #4: Postwar: Law & Politics (1865-1878); Topics covered include: Return from war, reunite with family, reopen law practice, attend veterans reunions, case of Ex parte Milligan, Panic of 1873, buys new home, runs for Governor of Indiana (1876), serves on the Mississippi River Commission, death of father John Scott Harrison, and the grave robbing of his father's body


Key people: Oliver Morton, Carrie Harrison, Russell Harrison, Mamie Harrison, Nancy Clem, Jacob Young, Nancy Young, Lambdin Milligan, Tom Browne, Cyrus Hines, William Miller, Godlove Orth, James ("Blue Jeans") Williams, Rutherford Hayes, John Scott Harrison, John Harrison, and Augustus Devin


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