The scion of a political dynasty ushers in the era of big government Politics was in Benjamin Harrison\'s blood.
After a scandal-free term in the Senate-no small feat in the Gilded Age-the Republicans chose Harris.
Harrison, a leading Indiana lawyer, became a Republican Party champion, even taking a leave from the Civil War to campaign for Lincoln.
His great-grandfather signed the Declaration and his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was the ninth President of the United States.
The scion of a political dynasty ushers in the era of big government Politics was in Benjamin Harrison\'s blood