* 1907 – Benjamin Henry Sheares, Singaporean politician, 2nd President of Singapore ( d. 1981 )

During the impeachment trial, Representative Benjamin Butler launched an investigation into suspicious and complex activities surrounding certain Senators, whose votes would either convict or acquit President Johnson.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

* 1670 – Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University ( d. 1737 )

* 1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.

The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.

Although Gresham was a Republican, he had supported Cleveland ( a Democrat ) in the 1892 election because of his intense dislike for the Republican nominee, President Benjamin Harrison.

* 1737 – Benjamin Wadsworth, President of Harvard University ( b. 1670 )

* 1861 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war.

In a desperate attempt to prevent armed battle and to avert the resulting political crisis, U. S. President Andrew Jackson consulted his Attorney General Benjamin Butler for his legal opinion on the border dispute.

Richard Rush of Pennsylvania, a representative of President Jackson who helped to present a compromise to both governors. On April 3, 1835, Jackson sent two representatives from Washington, D. C., Richard Rush of Pennsylvania and Benjamin Chew Howard of Maryland, to Toledo to arbitrate the conflict and present a compromise to both governments.

He was a member of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and on November 5, 1788 he was elected President of the Council, replacing Benjamin Franklin.

Marshall traveled to Indianapolis in search of a defense lawyer and employed future United States President Benjamin Harrison, then a prominent lawyer in the area.

Grant's two Attorney Generals Amos T. Akerman and George H. Williams, in addition to Solicitor General Benjamin Bristow, effectively prosecuted and shut down the Ku Klux Klan by 1872 through the use of the Force Acts passed by President Grant and Congress.

* Sir Benjamin Heywood, a prosperous banker, acted as President of the Mechanics ' Institute for the period 1824 – 1841 ; his son, Oliver subsequently became President.

* The American President: Season One, Episode 8, Voice of President Harding: Benjamin C. Bradley, 2000.

In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison appointed him Solicitor General of the United States ; at age 32, he was the youngest-ever Solicitor General.

* January 5 – Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison ( b. 1858 )

* March 13 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States ( born 1833 )

* November 21 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin Secretary of War.

* August 20 – Future United States President Benjamin Harrison is born in Ohio.

* 1773 – William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States ( d. 1841 )

Van Buren outlived his four immediate successors as President ( William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor ).

President Harrison appointed Roosevelt to the United States Civil Service Commission, where he served until 1895.

The very citadel of spoils politics, the hitherto impregnable fortress that had existed unshaken since it was erected on the foundation laid by Andrew Jackson, was tottering to its fall under the assaults of this audacious and irrepressible young man .... Whatever may have been the feelings of the ( fellow Republican party ) President ( Harrison ) — and there is little doubt that he had no idea when he appointed Roosevelt that he would prove to be so veritable a bull in a china shop — he refused to remove him and stood by him firmly till the end of his term.

Ironically, although President Jackson was able to secure fellow Democrat Martin Van Buren's election in the 1836 presidential election, Ohio voted for the Whig Party candidate and Ohio resident William Henry Harrison, despite Jackson's efforts to gain Ohioan support during the Toledo War.

The constitutional flaws in the process of presidential succession had been known since the death of President William Henry Harrison in 1841, but little progress had been made passing a constitutional amendment to remedy the problem.

When William Henry Harrison died in office, a debate arose over whether the Vice President would become President, or if he would just inherit the powers, thus becoming an Acting President.

In March 1840, Harrison pledged to serve only one term as President if elected, a pledge which reflected popular support for a Constitutional limit to Presidential terms among many in the Whig Party.

Harrison served only 31 days and became the first President to die in office.

The convention nominated William Henry Harrison for President and Francis Granger for Vice President.

In any case, the AMP convention unanimously nominated William Henry Harrison for President and Daniel Webster for Vice President.

John Tyler was the first Vice President to assume the Presidency following the death of his William Henry Harrison | predecessor.

This was first tested in 1841 with the death of President William Henry Harrison.

The White House had chewing gum until it could chew no more, and every Christmas, Mr. Wrigley sent the President a check for $100, to be divided among all the help.

Through Ladgham, Mr. Kennedy sent a message along those lines to Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba ; ;

The Senate ( by voice vote ) and the House ( by 224-170 ) passed and sent to the White House the compromise farm bill which the President is expected to sign, not too unhappily.

Prime Minister Pedro Pires sent FARP soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.

On April 20, Kennedy sent a memo to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, asking Johnson to look into the status of America's space program, and into programs that could offer NASA the opportunity to catch up.

* 1958 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

Prime Minister Pedro Pires sent FARP soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.

And again on October 17, Soviet embassy official Georgy Bolshakov brought President Kennedy a " personal message " from Khrushchev reassuring him that " under no circumstances would surface-to-surface missiles be sent to Cuba.

President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, sent that certification to Congress on July 22, 2011, which set the end of DADT for September 20, 2011.

President Adams appointed Gerry to be a member of a special diplomatic commission sent to France in 1797.

On May 6, 1961, the commission sent its draft to President Ayub Khan who thoroughly examined the draft with consulting with his cabinet.

A photograph of President Calvin Coolidge sent from New York to London on November 29, 1924 became the first photo picture reproduced by transoceanic radio facsimile.

President Calvin Coolidge sent Hoover to mobilize state and local authorities, militia, army engineers, the Coast Guard, and the American Red Cross.

President Jefferson sent Monroe to France to assist Robert R. Livingston to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase.

President Bush sent White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andrew Card Jr. to Ashcroft's hospital bed, where Ashcroft lay semiconscious, to request that he sign a document reversing the Justice Department's ruling.

Despite this, he sent a three-page letter to US President Barack Obama imploring him to " annul a wrong and mistaken action " and stop striking Libyan targets, repeatedly referring to him as " our son " and blaming the uprising on the terrorist group al Qaeda.

In 1857 President James Buchanan sent an army to Utah, which Mormons interpreted as open aggression against them.

In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt sent the Great White Fleet on its round-the-world voyage.

But President Millard Fillmore, determined to open up trade with Japan, has sent Commodore Matthew C. Perry across the Pacific, and, to the consternation of Lord Abe and the Shogun's other Councillors, the stirrings of trouble begin with the appearance of Manjiro, a fisherman who was lost at sea and rescued by Americans.

' Timochenko ' announced the new commander in chief is ' Alfonso Cano ' After speculations in several national and international media about the ' softening up ' of the FARC and the announcement of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe that several FARC leaders were ready to surrender and free their captives, the secretariat of the FARC sent out a communiqué emphasizing the death of their founder would not change their approach towards the captives or the humanitarian agreement.

On May 25, 1997, a group of seventeen soldiers in the Sierra Leone army led by Corporal Tamba Gborie and loyal to the detained Major General Johnny Paul Koroma launched a military coup which sent President Kabbah into exile in Guinea and they established the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ).

President Wilson felt obliged to acknowledge the boy as theirs and sent the couple a note that simply said, " With congratulations to the baby.

President Ulysses S. Grant sent in federal troops to restore the elected mayor.

President Lincoln again sent Charles Dana to keep a watchful eye on Grant's alleged intemperance ; Dana eventually became Grant's devoted ally, and made light of the drinking.