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Family members include a Founding Father of the United States, Benjamin Harrison V, and also three U. S. presidents: William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln. [ a ] Some Harrisons have served as state and local public officials and others have been instrumental in education and medicine.
Benjamin Harrison IV was born in a small house on the plantation named "Berkeley Hundred" or "Berkeley Plantation". [5] The immigrant of his family is thought to have come from London and earlier from Northampton. [6] He completed his studies at The College of William & Mary and became the family's first college graduate. [7]
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893.He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father.
The Harrison family of Virginia is a prominent political family in U.S. history. Subcategories. ... Benjamin Harrison; Benjamin Harrison III; Benjamin Harrison IV;
Benjamin Harrison I (1594–1648) arrived in the colonies around 1630 and by 1633 began a family tradition of public service when he was recorded as clerk of the Virginia Governor's Council. [1] Benjamin Harrison II (1645–1712) and Benjamin Harrison III (1673–1710) followed this example, serving as delegates in the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Benjamin Harrison III (1673 – April 10, 1710) was an American politician in the Colony of Virginia. He was an early member of the Harrison family of Virginia, serving as the colony's attorney general, treasurer, and Speaker of the House of Burgesses .
Benjamin Harrison VI's father was Benjamin Harrison V (1726–1791), a wealthy planter and slave owner, who would later become one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. His mother, Elizabeth Basset (13 December 1730 – 1792), was a descendant of Captain William Bassett II, who was an officer in the King's Army , during the ...
Barack Obama is thus far the only president to have ancestry from outside of Europe; his paternal family is of Kenyan Luo ancestry. He is also believed to be a direct descendant of John Punch, a colonial-era slave born in modern-day Cameroon. [2] There is no evidence that any president has had Indigenous American ancestry.