Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James Garfield Chester A. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard M. Nixon Gerald R. Bush William J. Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama Donald J. Trump Joseph R. Biden Jr. ZIP Code. Harrison signs a historic measure creating nine Circuit Courts of Appeals.
The new Courts are set up to relieve the demands on the Supreme Court. A mob in New Orleans lynches eleven Italian immigrants from Sicily, resulting in Italy severing its diplomatic ties to the United States and threatening war.
Those murdered are among a group of nineteen Italian immigrants indicted for the murder of police chief David C. Amidst allegations of threats and bribes to the jury, all nineteen had been cleared.
Responding to a request from the Balmaceda government of Chile, the United States seizes a Chilean rebel ship, the Itata , as it is carrying an arms shipment from San Diego. The rebels eventually defeat the Balmaceda government in a civil war, leading to the emergence of tense relations between the United States and Chile.
A brawl between American sailors and Chilean nationals in Valparaiso, Chile, results in the deaths of two Americans and many arrests. Tensions between the United States and Chile escalate, and many fear the outbreak of war between the two nations. Harrison states that all members of his cabinet are in favor of war with Chile. During the first three weeks of January, Secretary of State Blaine is the only cabinet member arguing against an ultimatum.
Secretary of State Blaine resigns. His disagreements with the President have increased. Additionally, Blaine has grown increasingly ill and will die less than eight months after leaving office. Harrison is nominated on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis. Whitelaw Reid of New York is nominated as his running mate.
After being locked out over a contract dispute, steel workers at the Homestead plant part of Carnegie Steel in Pennsylvania fight with men from the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who have been brought in to bust the strike.
Seven Pinkertons and nine workers die. Six days later, 8, militiamen accompany and protect the Pinkerton men. Silver miners at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, go on a violent strike. Thirty men are killed as they fight non-union help. Harrison sends in federal troops to restore order. This proves to be fruitless; the strike lasts five months, breaks the union, and deals a major blow to organized labor.
When the strike ends on November 20, Carnegie realizes his major aim as the union is virtually destroyed. Garnering 43 percent of the popular vote, Harrison is defeated by Grover Cleveland, who gains 46 percent in the presidential election. Cleveland receives electoral votes to Harrison's Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii is deposed on January 17, with a provisional government being established under Sanford B. News of the revolt reaches Washington on January Harrison responds by deploying marines to Hawaii to protect the new government.
The Senate, intensely divided, refuses to act. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester A. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Help inform the discussion Support the Miller Center. University of Virginia Miller Center.
Breadcrumb U. March 4, Benjamin Harrison inaugurated. March 7, April 29, May 3, Roosevelt visits the White House. August 6, Harrison tours New England. October 2, First Pan-American Conference. November 2, North and South Dakota become states. North and South Dakota join the Union as the thirty-ninth and fortieth states. November 8, Montana becomes a state.
Montana becomes the forty-first state. November 11, Domestic Policy Harrison signed the Sherman Antitrust Act of into law — as funded and administered, the legislation had no teeth, but it established the goal of a check on corporations that later presidents like Theodore Roosevelt could exploit more fully. More dire results came from a higher tariff and the introduction of silver coinage.
Both of these policies probably hastened the Panic of Harrison supported bills that promoted voting rights of African Americans in the South, but could not get them through Congress. He appointed Frederick Douglass, the most famous African American of the day, as ambassador to Haiti.
Foreign Affairs International affairs engaged Harrison's administration more than any president since Lincoln. The first Pan-American conference was held in In the Pacific, Harrison established Samoa as an American protectorate with Germany and England as partners, and tried to annex Hawaii following a revolution the Senate rejected the annexation.
To the south, the president did not hesitate to use the new armored navy to pressure Chile to pay reparations for harm done to American sailors in Valparaiso.
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