He was the first President to have electricity in the White House.
He was the first President to have his voice recorded. (You can listen to it by clicking on the link below.)
His wife, Caroline, died while he was in office, and he subsequently married her niece, Mary, who was twenty-five years younger than him;
Harrison won the 1888 election despite losing the popular vote. Harrison was the third such victor—the first two being John Quincy Adams in 1824, and Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876—but he wouldn't be the last. George W. Bush performed the same feat in 2000 as did Donald Trump in 2016.
President Harrison established the first National Forest in Yellowstone Park—and it wouldn't be the last. Harrison used his powers under the Forest Reserve Act of 1891 to set aside additional forest reserves in the public domain. By the time Harrison left office in 1893 over 22 million acres of forest had been reserved for federal government protection.
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