John Scott Harrison

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John Scott Harrison

John Scott Harrison (born October 4, 1804 in Vincennes , Indiana Territory , † May 25, 1878 in North Bend , Ohio ) was an American politician with the United States Whig Party . March 4, 1853 to March 3, 1857 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States for the second  congressional district of the state of Ohio. He was the only man to date whose father and son were President of the United States .

biography

John Scott Harrison was born in Vincennes in 1804 as the son of the future US President William Henry Harrison and Anna Harrison . There he also went to school and then studied medicine . He later became a farmer.

In 1824 he married Lucretia Knapp Johnson. He had three children with her. In 1831 he married his second wife Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin in Cincinnati . Together they had ten children, including the future US President Benjamin Harrison . After his father died in 1841, his mother moved in with him and helped her daughter-in-law raise children.

In 1852 , Harrison was elected to the US House of Representatives as a candidate for the United States Whig Party to represent Ohio's 2nd Congressional District. From 1855 he was a member of the opposition party in the House of Representatives. In 1857 he left the House . Harrsion then moved to North Bend to live on Point Farm . He died there in 1878 and was buried in his father's grave.

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