After the Civil War, the President of the United States was mostly from the victorious North or Republican Party, but according to the law of corrupting power, the President and Congressmen of the Republican Party were associated with industrial capitalists and lost their support. As a result, Democratic Clover Cleveland was appointed as the 22nd president, and the Republican Party's dominance collapsed.
However, Republican Benjamin Harrison became president again because Cleveland tightened against industrial capitalists based on Protestantism.
Benjamin Harrison before becoming president
Benjamin Harrison was also born in Ohio, like James Garfield and Rutherford B. Hayes.
Before the Civil War, Virginia was often the president of the United States, but after the Civil War, many were from Ohio. This may be a manifestation of the major changes in American politics due to the Civil War.
The Harrison clan can seek its origins from a person named Benjamin Harrison who moved to Virginia in 1630, and in a sense it may be said to embody both the old and new rulers.
Benjamin Harrison's father is also a politician, and his grandfather is William Harrison, the ninth president, who has finished his shortest term in history.
Benjamin Harrison, like the culmination of American rulers, studied at the University of Miami and after graduating he began working at a law firm. He married in 1853, opened a law firm in Indianapolis, and became a local notable.
When the Civil War broke out, he joined the Union Army and assumed the position of Brigadier General.
He ran for president in 1888, including being a member of the Republican Party after the war.
At the time of the election, the general vote was as low as 90,000 votes against the incumbent president, Cleveland, but in the voter vote, 233 bodies and 168 votes were won by a relatively small margin, becoming the 23rd president. ..
The 23rd President
The government of Benjamin Harrison was completely dominated by industrial capitalists.
The McKinley Tariffs Act, which passed during his reign, promoted protectionist trade by raising tariffs to 50%, and the Sherman Silver Purchasing Act mandated the government to purchase large quantities of silver each year. As a result, foreign products have soared domestically, and everyone has come to buy domestic products made by industrial capitalists, and their power will continue to grow.
Cleveland continued to veto the parliament under the guise of the industrial capitalist, but Benjamin Harrison did not do so and became the obedience of the parliament, and thus the industrial capitalist.
At this time, the Sherman Antitrust Law was enacted to curb industrial capitalists, but the content was completely non-functional, apparently just a pose.
Since it was in such a state, Cleveland will return in the next presidential election.
Benjamin Harrison died in 1901. He was 67 years old.