Benjamin Harrison V: Founding Father

Benjamin Harrison V

American Revolutionary War politician, planter, and merchant. He served as a Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress and was one of the Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence. In the Second Continental Congress, he served as Chairman of the Committee of the Whole and presided over the final debates on the Declaration of Independence. After independence, he served as Governor of Virginia from 1781 to 1784.

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Year	Benjamin Harrison V
1726	Birth of Benjamin Harrison V (Period: April 5, 1726, Location: Charles City (present-day Charles City County, Virginia))
1748	Marriage (Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth, Age: 21 years old, Period: 1748, Location: Colony of Virginia, New Kent County) Marriage (Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth Bassett, Age: 21 years old, Period: 1748, Location: Colony of Virginia, New Kent County)
1752	Assumption of Office in the Virginia House of Burgesses (Benjamin Harrison V, Age: 25 years old, Period: 1752–1776, Location: Colony of Virginia)
1760	Protests Against British Colonial Policy (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1760s–1770s, Location: Colony of Virginia)
1772	1772 Petition to Abolish the Slave Trade (Age: 45 years old, Period: 1772, Location: Colony of Virginia)
1774	Delegate to the First Continental Congress (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1774, Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Participation in the First Continental Congress (Age: 48 years old, Period: September–October 1774, Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Signing of the Continental Association (Age: 48 years old, Period: October 1774, Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
1775	American Revolutionary War (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1775–1783, Location: Mainly the Southern Colonies and Western Appalachia) Delegate to the Second Continental Congress (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1775–1777, Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Virginia Convention at St. John's Church (Age: 48 years old, Period: March 1775, Location: Richmond, Virginia) Inspection of the Continental Army (Age: 49 years old, Period: November 1775, Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts)
1776	Final Debates on the Declaration of Independence (Age: 50 years old, Period: July 1–July 4, 1776, Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Involvement in the Adoption of the Declaration of Independence (Age: 50 years old, Period: July 1776, Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Signing of the Declaration of Independence (Age: 50 years old, Period: August 2, 1776, Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
1781	Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates (Benjamin Harrison V, Age: 54 years old, Period: 1781–1782, 1785–1786, Location: Virginia) Assumption of Office as Governor of Virginia (Benjamin Harrison V, Age: 55 years old, Period: December 1, 1781–December 1, 1784, Location: Richmond, Virginia)
1788	1788 Virginia Ratifying Convention (Age: 62 years old, Period: June 1788, Location: Richmond, Virginia)
1791	Death After Re-election to the Virginia House of Delegates (Age: 64 years old, Period: April 1791, Location: Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia) Final Re-election to the Virginia House of Delegates (Benjamin Harrison V, Age: 64 years old, Period: April 1791, Location: Charles City County, Virginia) Death of Benjamin Harrison V (Age: 65 years old, Period: April 24, 1791)

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The Randolph Family	Peyton Randolph John Randolph of Roanoke Edmund Jennings Randolph Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. John Randolph
The Harrison Family	Benjamin Harrison V Carter Henry Harrison I William Henry Harrison Carter Bassett Harrison Benjamin Harrison IV
Wars with Indigenous Peoples and Territorial Expansion	Andrew Jackson William Henry Harrison John Sevier Isaac Shelby Tecumseh William Weatherford Pushmataha Osceola Sequoyah
Texas annexation	James Knox Polk John Tyler Zachary Taylor Winfield Scott Samuel Houston Stephen Fuller Austin

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