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The Harrison family of Virginia is an American political family, of the Commonwealth of Virginia, whose members include a Founding Father of the United States, Benjamin Harrison V, and three U. S. presidents: William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln. The Harrisons are among four families to have two presidents in their number with the same surname; the others are the Adams, Roosevelt, and Bush families. The family's lineage also includes state governors, legislators, mayors, and professionals.

The Virginia Harrison family consists primarily of two branches with origins in northern England. One branch, led by Benjamin Harrison I, journeyed by way of Bermuda to Virginia before 1633 and settled on the James River at Berkeley Plantation; they are often referred to as the James River Harrisons. Successive generations of this part of the family served in the legislature of the Colony of Virginia, including Benjamin V, who was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence and later governor of the Commonwealth. This branch produced President William Henry Harrison, Benjamin V's son, and President Benjamin Harrison, William Henry's grandson, as well as another Virginia governor, Albertis Harrison. Descendants of the James River family include two Chicago mayors and members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Sarah Embra Harrison of Danville, Virginia boldly launched a decades-long church ministry in the midst of the Roaring Twenties.

The second branch of the Virginia Harrisons emigrated from Britain to New England in 1687 and settled in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia 50 years later; they were led by Isaiah Harrison. This family most likely descended from an interim chaplain of the Jamestown Colony, Rev. Thomas Harrison. He was kindred to the James River Harrisons, but by 1650 he had returned to England. President Abraham Lincoln descended from the Shenandoah Valley family, as did entertainer Elvis Presley. The family also includes the founders of Harrisonburg and Dayton, and produced educators and physicians who made groundbreaking contributions in the areas of linguistics, women's advocacy, and transplant surgery.