Benjamin Started It!
December 13th, 2007 at 7:20 pm by Eric Halvorson under Eric Halvorson's Blog
A Hoosier gets credit for a holiday tradition in Washington. President Benjamin Harrison started the tradition of the White House Christmas tree. That year — in 1889 — they lit the tree with candles.
White House historians credit Mrs. Grover Cleveland for the first “technology savvy” tree. They used electric lights instead of candles in 1895.
