Benjamin Harrison

Russell Benjamin Harrison

He was born August 12, 1854, and died on December 13, 1936. He joined his father's White House staff, while his wife, Angeline Saunders, became official White House hostess for an ailing first lady. He was enbroiled in a railroad stock scandal. He had an army career, ran a streetcar company in Indiana, and served in the state legislature.

Mary "Mamie" Scott Harrison McKee

She was born April 3, 1858 and she died of cancer on October 28, 1930. She married James Robert McKee and had two children, but was a widow by the time her father became president. Mamie and her two sons lived in the White House during her father's first term. She was considered a beauty and impressed Washington society as a glamorous hostess. Mamie strongly protested her widowed father's marriage to a woman her exact age.

Elizabeth Harrison Walker

She was born February 21, 1897 and died on December 26, 1955. She was the only child by Harrison's second marriage. A graduate of New York University Law School, she married James Blaine Walker, a grandnephew of a member of her father's Cabinet. Ahead of her time, Elizabeth was a member of the Bar in two states, a leader in society and active in public life.

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