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Which president did Benjamin Harrison defeat in the 1888 election?

  • Chester A. Arthur

  • James Garfield

  • Grover Cleveland

  • Theodore Roosevelt

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Benjamin Harrison defeated the Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland in the 1888 election, winning the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote. Cleveland later defeated Harrison in the 1892 election.
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