Ancestors
Many of his family members were politicians:
- Great-great-great grandfather, Benjamin Harrison V, signed the United States Declaration of Independence
- Great-great-grandfather, William Henry Harrison, served as the 9th U.S. President
- Great-grandfather, John Scott Harrison, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio (1853–1857)
- Grandfather, Benjamin Harrison, served as the 23rd President.
- Grandfather, Alvin Saunders, United States Senator from Nebraska.
- Father, Russell Benjamin Harrison, member of the Indiana General Assembly
Read more about this topic: William H. Harrison (Wyoming Congressman)
Famous quotes containing the word ancestors:
“It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.”
—Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900)
“Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child’s life chances.”
—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)
“Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)