Not Even Some of the Best Attorneys Are Up For Breaking into Patents

by Steve Reiss (stevenreiss@scienbizippc.com)

President Benjamin Harrison (R-OH 1889 to 1893)

Benjamin Harrison was a well-known attorney in Indiana. He was practicing law there from the end of the Civil War to 1874 when he was entered politics, including being elected senator from Indiana and president of the United States. In the election of 1888, Harrison lost the popular vote, but won the electoral vote.

At least one source said Harrison was "one of the state's [Indiana] leading lawyers..."

This was not enough for Harrison:

Ben's early... dreams of quick success at the Indiana bar had been rudely shattered. It was not all his fault. The nature of law practice was peculiar at that time, and although he struggled and searched, fees, even small ones, and clients were not easily found.

He found that he could not attach himself to any firm of specialists, for at that time the important and lucrative fields of corporation, patent and commercial law were not yet developed.

Benjamin Harrison, v. 1, p 93
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