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Ben Harrison: “To look upon his face, to hear his name, was to have one's love of country intensified.”

On the recordFebruary 13, 1891
To look upon his face, to hear his name, was to have one's love of country intensified.
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Ben Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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Message to Congress Announcing the Death of General William Tecumseh Sherman

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