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LIVE! Election Day

This event puts you at the front door of history!

Get a glimpse of the Harrison family as they eagerly await results from the 1888 presidential election and learn whether if they’ll be the newest occupants of the white house. Is General Harrison ready to become President? What does his wife, Caroline, think of the over 80 speeches he gave to more than 80,000 people from their front porch during the campaign?

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“When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?” Benjamin Harrison

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LIVE! Election Day