Huffman, Jared"The Human Iceberg"

Benjamin Harrison was born August 20, 1833, into a family with deep political roots — his great-grandfather was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his grandfather William Henry Harrison had also served as U.S. President. Benjamin served in the Union Army during the Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general, before becoming a U.S. Senator from Indiana. He won the presidency in 1888 despite losing the popular vote to incumbent Grover Cleveland, thanks to the Electoral College. His single term (1889–1893) saw the admission of six new states to the Union (more than any other president), the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and high tariff policies, but economic troubles and party divisions led to his defeat by the very man he'd beaten four years earlier, Grover Cleveland, making Cleveland the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms.