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William Henry Harrison
Title: William Henry Harrison
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 794 | Pages: 3.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison, (1773-1841), was 9th President of the United States. The oldest president up until then, he was also the first to die in office, surviving only one month. With his known Indian fighting his was given the nickname “Old Tippecanoe” and “Old Tip.” He was the first presidential candidate to campaign actively for office. His election slogan was “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!”
William Henry Harrison was born on Feb. 9, 1773, on the James River in …showed first 75 words of 794 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 794 total…as the Caroline affair. Webster negotiated the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842 and all was good.
One cold March morning, he went out to buy vegetables and suffered a severe chill. The cold he had caught on inauguration day now developed into pneumonia. Harrison died on April 4, 1841, 12 & 1/2 hours short of 31 full days in office. He was buried in William Henry Harrison Memorial State Park, North Bend, Ohio. And was the first president to die in office.
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