US statesman and ninth president (1841), born in Charles City Co, Virginia, USA. Wellborn and well-educated, he opted for the army and in the 1790s fought Indians in the Northwest Territory under Anthony Wayne. As governor of the new Indian Territory (180012), he extracted millions of acres from the Indians and fought Tecumseh's rebels in the Battle of Tippecanoe (Nov 1811), and although the battle was inconclusive, it made Harrison a hero. Commanding regular army forces in the NW during the War of 1812, he re-occupied Detroit in 1813 and soundly defeated the British and Indians at the Thames R in Ontario, Canada (Oct 1813). He went on to serve Ohio in the US House of Representatives (181719) and in the US Senate (18258). After an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1836, he won (as a Whig) in 1840 with Tyler as vice-president, on a campaign of ballyhoo and mudslinging, with its slogan, Tippecanoe and Tyler too. An exhausted Harrison caught a cold at the inauguration and he died of pneumonia a month later.
William Henry Harrison|
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| 9th President of the United States | |
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In office March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841 |
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| Vice President(s) | John Tyler |
| Preceded by | Martin Van Buren |
| Succeeded by | John Tyler |
| Born |
February 9, 1773 Charles City County, Virginia |
| Died |
April 4, 1841 Washington D.C. |
| Political party | Whig |
| Spouse | Anna Symmes Harrison |
| Religion | Episcopal |
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William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States, (1841). Harrison first gained national fame as a war hero, defeating American Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 and earning the nickname "Tippecanoe" (or "Old Tippecanoe").
When Harrison took office in 1841 at the age of 68, he was the oldest man to be elected President;
Early years and military career
Harrison was born into a prominent political family at the Berkeley Plantation in Charles City County Virginia, the youngest of the seven children of Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth Basset. William Henry Harrison's brother, Carter Bassett Harrison, later became a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Virginia.
Harrison resigned from the Army in 1798 to become Secretary of the Northwest Territory, and acted as governor when Governor Arthur St. Clair was absent. In 1799, Harrison was elected as the first delegate representing the Northwest Territory in the Sixth United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1799, to May 14, 1800. Harrison resigned from Congress to become governor of the newly formed Indiana Territory at Vincennes, a post he held for twelve years, until 1813. Tensions, always high on the frontier, became much greater after the 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne, in which Harrison secured the purchase of more than 2,500,000 acres (10,000 km²) of American Indian land. Tecumseh called upon Harrison to nullify the Treaty of Fort Wayne, warned against any whites moving onto the land, and continued to widen his Indian confederation (see "Tecumseh's War").
Post-war political career
After the war, Harrison was elected to various political offices, including the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio, serving from October 8, 1816, to March 4, 1819.
Harrison was the Northern Whig candidate for President in 1836, but lost the election to Martin Van Buren.
The Democrats attempted to ridicule Harrison by calling him "Granny Harrison, the petticoat general," because he resigned from the army before the War of 1812 ended. Harrison's vice presidential running-mate was John Tyler, and their campaign was marked by exaggeration of both Harrison's military exploits and of his connections to the common man. A memorable example of these efforts was the Gold Spoon Oration delivered by a Whig congressman.) Harrison and Tyler's campaign slogans of "Log Cabins and Hard Cider" and "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too" are among the most famous in American politics.
Presidency 1841
Short presidency
When Harrison arrived in Washington, he focused on showing that he was still the stalwart hero of Tippecanoe.
The untimely death of Harrison was a disappointment to Whigs, who hoped to pass a revenue tariff and enact measures to support Henry Clay's American System.
Harrison's son, John Scott Harrison, was also elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio from 1853 to 1857. Harrison's grandson, Benjamin Harrison of Ohio, became the 23rd president in 1889, making them the only grandparent-grandchild pair of presidents to date.
Administration and Cabinet
| OFFICE | NAME | TERM |
| President | William H. Harrison | 1841 |
| Vice President | John Tyler | 1841 |
| Secretary of State | Daniel Webster | 1841 |
| Secretary of the Treasury | Thomas Ewing | 1841 |
| Secretary of War | John Bell | 1841 |
| Attorney General | John J. Crittenden | 1841 |
| Postmaster General | Francis Granger | 1841 |
| Secretary of the Navy | George E. Badger | 1841 |
States admitted to the Union
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