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_William HARRISON Jr._+
| (1710 - 1764)
_James HARRISON Sr._________|
| (1740 - 1811) |
| |_Mary GRAY ___________+
| (.... - 1811)
_James HARRISON Jr.__|
| (1790 - 1861) m 1814|
| | _Low TODD ____________
| | | (.... - 1792)
| |_Jane "Jennie" TODD ________|
| (1749 - 1805) |
| |_Elizabeth____________
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|--Elizabeth Jane HARRISON
| (1828 - 1916)
| ______________________
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| _Benjamin LANSTON __________|
| | (.... - 1806) m 1790 |
| | |______________________
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|_Elizabeth LANSTON __|
(1793 - 1865) m 1814|
| _Benjamin VAN PELT ___
| | (1742 - 1817) m 1763
|_Hannah Elizabeth VAN PELT _|
(1777 - 1859) m 1790 |
|_Mary COLLINS ________
(.... - 1815) m 1763
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Mother: Mary Angeline "May" SAUNDERS |
HARRISON, William Henry, (great-great-great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison [1726-1791], great-great-grandson of President William Henry Harrison, great-grandson of John Scott Harrison, and grandson of President Benjamin Harrison and Alvin Saunders), a Representative from Wyoming; born in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind., August 10, 1896; attended the public schools of Omaha, Nebr., the Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C., and the College of Agriculture at the University of Nebraska in 1919 and 1920; during the First World War served in the United States Army as a private in the Signal Enlisted Air Corps; was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1925 and practiced in Indianapolis 1925-1936; member of the Indiana house of representatives 1927-1929; was admitted to the Wyoming bar in 1937 and practiced in Sheridan, Wyo.; member of the Wyoming house of representatives 1945-1950; secretary to the Wyoming Interim Committee 1947-1950; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and Eighty-third Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1955); was not a candidate for renomination in 1954, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate; regional administrator, Housing and Home Finance Agency, from April 1955 to August 31, 1956; liaison officer, Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, D.C., from April 1, 1957, to November 15, 1958; elected to the Eighty-seventh and the Eighty-eighth Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; elected to the Ninetieth Congress (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1969); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress; appointed by President Nixon as a member to the Renegotiation Board of the United States, July 23, 1969, and served until October 4, 1971; was a resident of North Redington Beach, Fla., until his death in St. Petersburg, Fla., on October 8, 1990. [S986]
_John Scott HARRISON _________+
| (1804 - 1878) m 1831
_Benjamin HARRISON PRESIDENT OF USA_|
| (1833 - 1901) m 1853 |
| |_Elizabeth Ramsey IRWIN ______+
| (1810 - 1850) m 1831
_Russell Benjamin HARRISON ____|
| (1854 - 1936) m 1884 |
| | _Rev. John Witherspoon SCOTT _
| | | (1800 - 1892)
| |_Caroline Lavinia "Carrie" SCOTT ___|
| (1832 - 1892) m 1853 |
| |_Mary Potts NEALE ____________
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|
|--William Henry HARRISON II
| (1896 - 1990)
| ______________________________
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| _Alvin SAUNDERS ____________________|
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|_Mary Angeline "May" SAUNDERS _|
(1861 - 1944) m 1884 |
| ______________________________
| |
|_Marthena BARLOW ___________________|
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|______________________________
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