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William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States from March to April 1841. He died 31 days into his term, making him the shortest serving president and the first president to die in office. Immediately after his death, Vice President John Tyler took over, ending the constitutional crisis that had been triggered by the question of presidential succession in the U.S. Constitution.
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politics · President of the United States in 1841 · politician · diplomat · military officer · statesperson · governor · also William Henry Harrison, Old Tippecanoe, W. H. Harrison, President Harrison, William H. Harrison, Harrison
Born 9 February 1773 · Died 4 April 1841 · Q11869
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2026· 5 entries
“I am so much harassed by the multitude that calls upon me that I can give no proper attention to any business of my own.”
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“William Henry Harrison, President of the United States, tells you, gentlemen, that, by God, John Chambers shall be governor of Iowa!”
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“we might look forward to a day when a North American sun would not look down upon a slave.”
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Public attention spiked: 9,072 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.3× the usual 2,784, with 0 article edits.
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2009· 1 entry
The United States Mint released the ninth coin in the Presidential $1 Coin Program, bearing Harrison's likeness
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1967· 1 entry
Through Section One of the Twenty-fifth Amendment
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1945· 1 entry
Won Hoover Medal (1945).
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1841· 10 entries
After a short period of debate in both houses, passed a joint resolution, which confirmed Tyler as president for the remainder of Harrison's term
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Nine days after becoming ill and exactly one month after taking the oath of office; he was the first president to die in office
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Died 1841-04-04.
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Harrison took his daily morning walk to local markets, again without a coat or hat
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“Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.”
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“The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.”
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“...all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”
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“...there is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.”
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1841–1841).
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Anthony Philip Heinrich wrote The President's Funeral March dedicated to President Harrison
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1840· 2 entries
Campaign: 1840 presidential election.
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Career landmark: President-elect of the United States (1840–1841).
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1836· 3 entries
Election won: 1836 presidential election.
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Campaign: 1836 presidential election.
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That illustrates Harrison's popularity at this time
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1831· 1 entry
Said that he had sinned in making whiskey and hoped that others would learn from his mistake and stop the production of liquors
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1828· 3 entries
And found the condition of Colombia saddening
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Career landmark: United States Ambassador to Colombia (1828–1829).
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As minister plenipotentiary to Gran Colombia, so he resigned from Congress and served in his new post until March 8, 1829
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1827· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1827–1828).
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1825· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1825–1827).
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1824· 1 entry
And was an Ohio presidential elector in 1820 for James Monroe and for Henry Clay in 1824
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1819· 1 entry
And served until 1821, having lost the election for Ohio governor in 1820
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1816· 3 entries
To complete John McLean's term in the House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 1st congressional district until 1819
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Was elected to represent the state's 1st district in the House
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Career landmark: non-voting member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1816–1819).
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1814· 1 entry
Shortly before the conclusion of the War of 1812, and returned to his family and farm in North Bend, Ohio
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1813· 2 entries
Took the offensive, and led the army north to battle
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And Harrison built a second home at nearby Harrison Valley
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1812· 2 entries
And Harrison left Vincennes to seek a military appointment
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Led to continued conflict with Indians in the Northwest
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1811· 2 entries
Leaving Tenskwatawa in charge of Indian forces
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Led a military force against Tecumseh's confederacy at the Battle of Tippecanoe, for which he earned the nickname "Old Tippecanoe"
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1810· 1 entry
And its anti-slavery faction immediately repealed the indenturing laws previously enacted
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1807· 1 entry
The territorial legislature, with Harrison's support, enacted laws that authorized indentured servitude and gave masters authority to determine the length of service
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1805· 3 entries
And Brigadier General James Wilkinson assumed the duties of governor
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Harrison built a plantation-style home near Vincennes that he named Grouseland, in tribute to the birds on the property
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Harrison succeeded in acquiring for the nation as many as 51,000,000 acres from the Indians, after plying five of their chiefs with alcohol, for no more than a dollar per 20,000 acres ($21
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1804· 1 entry
Harrison was assigned to administer the civilian government of the District of Louisiana
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1803· 2 entries
Was given expanded authority to negotiate and conclude treaties with the Indians
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Had lobbied Congress to temporarily suspend for ten years Article VI of the Northwest Ordinance prohibiting slavery in the Indiana Territory
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1801· 4 entries
At Vincennes, the capital of the Indiana Territory
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Which was incorporated as Vincennes University on November 29, 1806
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And, through multiple treaties with American Indian tribes, he acquired millions of acres for the nation
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Career landmark: Governor of Indiana Territory (1801–1812).
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1800· 1 entry
President John Adams appointed Harrison as the governor of the Indiana Territory, based on his ties to the west and his apparent neutral political stances
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1773· 1 entry
Born 1773-02-09.
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